Gender Equality
Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls.
Gender equality is essential for creating fair, prosperous, and peaceful societies. Despite progress in many areas, women and girls around the world continue to face discrimination, unequal opportunities, and gender-based violence.
SDG 5 seeks to eliminate all forms of discrimination and violence against women and girls. It promotes equal participation in education, employment, leadership, and decision-making processes at all levels.
Empowering women and girls contributes to stronger economies, healthier families, and more inclusive communities. Gender equality benefits everyone and is a key requirement for achieving all other Sustainable Development Goals.
Targets
Target 5.1
End all forms of discrimination against all women and girls everywhere
Target 5.2
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
Target 5.3
Eliminate all harmful practices, such as child, early and forced marriage and female genital mutilation
Target 5.4
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
Target 5.5
Ensure women’s full and effective participation and equal opportunities for leadership at all levels of decision-making in political, economic and public life
Target 5.6
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
Target 5.a
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
Target 5.b
Enhance the use of enabling technology, in particular information and communications technology, to promote the empowerment of women
Target 5.c
Adopt and strengthen sound policies and enforceable legislation for the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls at all levels
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