Editors:
- Fosters knowledge to support the UN Sustainable Development Goal to achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
- Comprehensively describes research, projects and practical action
- Provides government agencies, education institutions and non-governmental agencies with a sound basis to promote sustainability efforts
- Covers many countries, very international
Part of the book series: Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (ENUNSDG)
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Table of contents (118 entries)
About this book
The problems related to the process of industrialisation such as biodiversity depletion, climate change and a worsening of health and living conditions, especially but not only in developing countries, intensify. Therefore, there is an increasing need to search for integrated solutions to make development more sustainable. The United Nations has acknowledged the problem and approved the “2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”. On 1st January 2016, the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the Agenda officially came into force. These goals cover the three dimensions of sustainable development: economic growth, social inclusion and environmental protection.
The Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals comprehensively addresses the SDGs in an integrated way. It encompasses 17 volumes, each devoted to one of the 17 SDGs. This volume addresses SDG 5, namely "Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls" and contains thedescription of a range of terms, which allow a better understanding and foster knowledget. This SDG is considered by many as a pivotal goal since the significant role of women in achieving sustainable development has always been acknowledged in several official UN declarations. Yet gender disparity is still rampant under various guises in various countries. Women’s rights need to be strongly safeguarded through legislation to ensure equal opportunities.
Concretely, the defined targets are:
- End all forms of discrimination against all women and girls everywhere
- Eliminate all forms of violence against all women and girls in the public and private spheres, including trafficking and sexual and other types of exploitation
- Eliminate all harmful practices, such as child, early and forced marriage and female genital mutilation
- Recognize and value unpaid care and domestic work through the provision of public services, infrastructure and social protection policies and the promotion of shared responsibility within the household and the family as nationally appropriate
- Ensure women’s full and effective participation and equal opportunities for leadership at all levels of decision-making in political, economic and public life
- Ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights as agreed in accordance with the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development and the Beijing Platform for Action and the outcome documents of their review conferences
- Undertake reforms to give women equal rights to economic resources, as well as access to ownership and control over land and other forms of property, financial services, inheritance and natural resources, in accordance with national laws
- Enhance the use of enabling technology, in particular information and communications technology, to promote the empowerment of women
- Adopt andstrengthen sound policies and enforceable legislation for the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls at all levels
Katarzyna Cichos, Vijaya Deshmukh, Melissa Haeffner, Sandra Hopkins, Tamara Hunt, Nerise Johnson, Chhabi Kumar, Julia Mambo, Anagha Paul, Andréia Faraoni Freitas Setti, Tony Wall
Editors and Affiliations
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European School of Sustainability, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Hamburg, Germany
Walter Leal Filho
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Center for Neuroscience & Cell Biology, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
Anabela Marisa Azul
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Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Passo Fundo University Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Passo Fundo, Brazil
Luciana Brandli
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HAW Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Amanda Lange Salvia
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International Centre for Thriving, University of Chester, Chester, United Kingdom
Tony Wall
About the editors
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Gender Equality
Editors: Walter Leal Filho, Anabela Marisa Azul, Luciana Brandli, Amanda Lange Salvia, Tony Wall
Series Title: Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70060-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Springer Reference Earth and Environm. Science, Reference Module Physical and Materials Science, Reference Module Earth and Environmental Sciences
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-70060-1Due: 07 January 2022
Series ISSN: 2523-7403
Series E-ISSN: 2523-7411
Topics: Sustainable Development, Social Structure, Social Inequality