SDG 5: Gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls. SDG Index | SDG Index and Dashboard | SDG Index & Dashboards | A Global Report. Face the facts: Gender Equality. Back to main Face the Facts page Download in Word In recent decades, women in Australia have made significant strides towards achieving equality with men. At universities, in workplaces, in boardrooms and in government, a growing number of women have taken on leadership roles, forging pathways for other women and girls to follow. In 1984, the Sex Discrimination Act came into force, making it against the law discrimination to discriminate against someone on the basis of gender, sexuality, marital status, family responsibilities or because they are pregnant.
The Act, which gives effect to Australia’s international human rights obligations under the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, has played an important role in changing community attitudes and helping advance gender equality in this country. About gender equality in Australia Barriers to gender equality Positive developments Did you know? Our role Find out more about our work in this area. Find out more. Equal Pay is 118 Years Away | News. The Global Gender Gap Report is in. And it makes for grim reading. Whilst patrons of the patriarchy protest that progress is being made, the statistics show that women are only earning what men earned ten years ago. That particular statistic is published alongside the equally depressing line, “progress towards wage equality and labour force parity has stalled markedly since 2009/2010.” A press release for the report explains that the worldwide gender pay gap has closed by only 4% in the last ten years and predicts that it will take another 118 years (or by 2133) to actually close the gap.
So unless you’re planning on being cryogenically frozen, earning less that people with penises is a life sentence. Global average earnings for women are $11,000, whilst men can expect to earn $21,000. Whilst no country has closed its gender gap entirely, Scandinavian countries are once again leading the way. Really, world? The Global Problem of Gender Inequality | Huffington Post. Egregious gender inequality still exists globally despite of substantial national and international measures that have been taken towards gender equality. Only four out of over 135 nations have achieved gender equality including Costa Rica, Cuba, Sweden, and Norway. Yemen was scored the lowest across all dimensions. Measures of gender equality include access to basic education, health and life expectancy, equality of economic opportunity, and political empowerment. Although there have been evident progresses, many alarming issues regarding gender discrimination still prevail today; therefore, total gender equality must be made a global priority as a fundamental step in both human development and economic progress.
The degree and causes of gender inequality vary throughout the world. Noticeable crimes against women consist of violence, femicide (murder of women), and rape (war rape). The evidence of gender discrimination is rooted in history, tradition and culture. Women wage war against ‘sexual terrorism’ Sexual harassment victim Yasmin Baramawi speaks to AFP about her assault whle she was taking part in a Tahrir Square demonstration. — AFP CAIRO — Faced with a spike in sexual violence against female protesters, Egyptian women are overcoming stigma and recounting painful testimonies to force silent authorities and a reticent society to confront “sexual terrorism.”
The victims of the attacks have been talking openly about their ordeals, insisting they will not be intimidated by a campaign they believe is aimed at shunning them from public life. “We are not victims, we are revolutionaries. What happened to us has made us stronger and we will continue” to take to the streets, said activist Aida Al-Kashef. Harassment of women is by no means new on Egypt’s streets, where they were often the target of verbal abuse and sometimes groping. The attackers have stripped women of their clothes with knives, sexually assaulted them and penetrated them with their fingers. WOMEN EMPOWERMENT THROUGH SKILLS DEVELOPMENT. The Voice & The Veil: Egypt's Revolutionary Women. CAIRO, Egypt — The Tahrir Square atmosphere in early 2011 that led to the fall of Hosni Mubarak provided a glimpse of an Egypt that could be.
Despite the odds against, a vibrant and multifaceted women’s rights movement continues to grow in post-Tahrir Egypt. But now, after Mubarak, after the elections which brought the Muslim Brotherhood’s Mohamed Morsi into power, and after the Supreme Council of Armed Forces (SCAF) disbanded the already shaky parliament (which only had eight women, out of over 500 seats) in a “soft coup,” the feminist situation may be more precarious than before the revolution. Many secular women fear what it could mean that Egypt’s new first lady wears a veil, and that the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood and their political wing, the Freedom and Justice Party, has democratically taken both the presidency and the parliament.
In the cradle of Egypt’s revolution, women will no longer be silenced | Egyptian Streets شوارع مصر. Egyptian women marching for their rights at a recent protest Nadine Saleh has spent most of her life wishing that she could walk down the streets of Cairo without fear of being sexually harassed. By the end of 2010, she had all but given up hope. And then came the January 25 revolution. Nadine was 14 years old when her parents first told her that she could not go to the local store in an up-scale Cairo neighbourhood alone. “I realized that the power for change is within us,” says Nadine enthusiastically, “it was time for our voices to be heard.” Despite the passion shown by hundreds of thousands of Egyptians during Egypt’s 18-day revolution, women’s rights have taken a back-seat.
“Egyptian streets are free of sexual harassment” reads the graffiti. Last month, several Islamist lawmakers, including Adel Abdel Maqsoud Afifi, declared that female protesters bear “100 percent” responsibility for being sexually harassed.” “Control your sons not your daughters.” Like this: Like Loading... Related. Empowering Women as Key Change Agents | The Hunger Project. Attitudes to gender equality and violence against women | VicHealth. Gambia and Tanzania outlaw child marriage. The Gambia and Tanzania have banned child marriage, with tough penalties for those who breach the rulings. Gambia's President Yayha Jammeh announced that anyone marrying a girl below 18 would be jailed for up to 20 years.
In Tanzania, the high court imposed a landmark ruling outlawing marriage under the age of 18 for boys and girls. Some 30% of underage girls are married in The Gambia, while in Tanzania the rate is 37%. Africa Live: More on this and other news stories Before the Tanzania ruling, girls as young as 14 could marry with parental consent, while it was 18 for boys. The BBC's Tulanana Bohela in Dar es Salaam says this is a big win for child rights groups and activists, who will now have an easier time rescuing girls from child marriage. The case was brought by lobby group Msichana Initiative. Gambia's President speaking at the Eid-ul-Fitr celebrations at the end of Ramadan, said parents and imams who perform the ceremonies would also face prison. Women seek pay rises as much as men - with less success. Image copyright PA The theory that women get paid less than men because they are not sufficiently pushy in the workplace is not true, a new study suggests.
Women are as likely as men to ask for a pay rise - but are less likely to get one, the research found. The study, by the Cass Business School and the universities of Warwick and Wisconsin, looked at 4,600 workers. It found "no support" for the "reticent female" theory, whereby women avoided asking for more money. For what it claimed was the first time, the study eliminated any impact from part-time workers earning less than their full-time counterparts, by comparing full-time males with full-time females, and part-time males with part-time females. When like-for-like male and female workers were compared, men were 25% more likely to get a pay rise when they asked, the study found.
The study was based on data from the 2013-14 Australian workplace relations survey. "It could be that Australia is odd. At America's Largest Companies, Just 7 Percent Of CEOs Are Women | Huffington Post. Better job protection needed for working mums, say MPs. Image copyright Thinkstock "Urgent action" is needed to give new and expectant mothers more protection at work after a "shocking" increase in discrimination, MPs have said. The Women and Equalities Committee is calling for a German style system, where it is harder to make women redundant during and after pregnancy. The number of expectant and new mothers forced to leave their jobs has almost doubled to 54,000 since 2005, it said. The government said it would consider the recommendations carefully.
In Germany, from the beginning of pregnancy until four months following childbirth, employers can only dismiss an employee in very rare cases - such as the company going bust - and it needs government approval to do so. In the UK, although it is illegal to dismiss a woman for reasons relating to having a child, a company can find other reasons for making her redundant. 'Unacceptable discrimination' 'Outdated attitudes' Are you a new or expectant mother affected by the issues raised in this story? Step It Up for Gender Equality. By Ambassador Walther Lichem (vienna, austria)Monday, March 07, 2016Inter Press Service VIENNA, Austria, Mar 07 (IPS) - In 1911, more than one million men and women attended rallies to commemorate the first International Women's Day. Demonstrators advocated for an end to gender discrimination and for the promotion of women's rights to work, vote, receive an education, and hold public office.
Ambassador Walther LichemA century later, there is a rising recognition of the special role and capacities women in leadership provide for enhanced societal cohesion, community and peace. Women are becoming the bearers of horizontally structured interactions in partnership against still prevailing vertical patterns of command, leadership and conflict. As we enter this International Women's Day we have to recognize that we have made great strides in women's empowerment but still face continued marginalization of women in public space and significant gender inequality.
This begins with education. (End) Why is the gender wage gap growing again? Oh yippee. The gender wage gap actually got bigger between 2014 and 2015, according to the Institute for Women's Policy Research: The median weekly earnings for full-time work increased for both women and men during 2015, but the increase was more substantial for men than women. In 2015, the ratio of women’s to men’s median weekly full-time earnings was 81.1 percent, a decrease of 1.4 percentage points since 2014, when the ratio was 82.5 percent. [...]
Controlling for inflation, women’s earnings increased by 0.9 percent, while men’s earnings increased by 2.6 percent since 2014. What’s going on here? It’s not yet clear whether this is a statistically significant decrease, explained IWPR’s Ariane Hegewisch. A raise in dollars is a good thing. The Supreme Court has a lot to say about fair pay for women—just ask Lilly Ledbetter—but Senate Republicans are as intent on standing in the way of progress on the court as they are on standing in the way of the Paycheck Fairness Act. Gender Inequality In Developing Countries (South Sudan) Goal 5. Gender Equality Blueprint. Australia, grow up and get with the rest of the world on workplace gender equality. Australia continues to drop behind the rest of the world on gender equality measures for women at work.
Yep, we've fallen from 17th to 20th place in PwC's annual ranking of 33 OECD countries on female economic empowerment. The only country to see a bigger fall is the Netherlands, due to a drop in women’s workforce participation. It seems we continue to lack the maturity to address some of the systemic issues holding back women at work – particularly the gender pay gap, accessible childcare and shared caring responsibilities. But then this time last year we still had a male Minister for Women and just two women represented in the ministry -- so that's at least some kind of progress. The PwC Women in Work Index weighs and compares OECD countries on a range of measures including equal pay, female access to employment opportunities and job security. So why are we going backwards on this index? The Nordic region has dominated the list since the year 2000. Gender Pay Gap Factsheet final. Gender equality in the workplace 'arriving 2050' at this rate of change, report says.
Posted Gender equality in the workforce is a pipedream before 2050 at the current rate of change, a report suggests. Slow progress around gender equality worldwide, Mercer report findsWomen only represent a third of managersIn Australia the pay gap sits at 24 per cent Consulting firm Mercer has found women around the globe are seeing slow progress in gaining gender and pay equality and are under-represented at all levels in the workplace and executive boardrooms. "At this pace and rate of change globally, we won't see any form of gender equality in the workforce till 2050," Mercer's Patricia Milligan said. Although women make up 40 per cent of the average company's workforce, they only represent a third of managers and 26 per cent of senior managers. Just 20 per cent have risen to the executive level because companies are slow to build talent pipelines to promote diversity. The gender pay gap is still significant, at 24 per cent based on full-time total remuneration.
Gender pay gap 'may take 118 years to close' - World Economic Forum. Image copyright Reuters The World Economic Forum believes it will take another 118 years - or until 2133 - until the global pay gap between men and women is finally closed. Women are only now earning the amount that men did in 2006, data from the WEF's Global Gender Gap report says.
It says progress on closing the gap has stalled in recent years at a time when more women are entering the workplace. In fact, nearly a quarter of a billion more women are in the global workforce today than a decade ago. In several countries, more women are now going to university than men but - crucially - this is not necessarily translating into more women occupying skilled roles or leadership positions. The WEF report looks at whether men and women have the same rights and opportunities in each country in four areas: health, education, economic participation and political empowerment. How equal are you? Nordic countries are still doing the most to close the gender gap overall, just as they were 10 years ago. 2014 Resource Gender Equity Fact Sheet. In focus: Women and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): SDG 5: Gender equality. Photo: UNPhoto/Sylvain Lietchti Targets 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 decisionmaking in political, economic and public life.
Women and girls, everywhere, must have equal rights and opportunity, and be able to live free of violence and discrimination. Women do 2.6 times more unpaid care and domestic work than men. Stories. Women's Empowerment. Goal 5: Gender Equality. 4125.0 - Gender Indicators, Australia, Feb 2016. Women's rights. Gender Equality. About workplace gender equality | The Workplace Gender Equality Agency. Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women.
Gender equality. Ited Nations: Gender equality and women's empowerment.