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Research Highlights: employment and gender equality

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According to Simona Scarpaleggia who wrote an article for "Women's Forum" she mentioned that a way to achieve gender equality is by abolishing discriminatory laws and introducing laws that protect the rights of women.

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Today marks the last important milestone in a journey, which began one year ago in New York City. When the UN High Level Panel on Women's Economic Empowerment met for the first time last year it was faced with the seemingly impossible task of making concrete recommendations to achieve gender equality worldwide by the year 2030. Now the panel has launched the second and final report, which does just that. A breakthrough for the world of work as we know it - providing concrete and tested solutions, which can be applied in organizations all over the world. The report builds on the seven drivers identified in report 1 and comes with dozens of recommendations.

The report, entitled Leave No One Behind: Taking Action for Transformational Change on Women's Economic Empowerment, narrows down the most important areas which require our urgent attention:

Formal: work or employment for women within established organisations

Informal: unpaid work, taking place in the family or community environment

Entrepreneurial: work in women's owned business and enterprises

Agricultural: work on the land and in agricultural endeavours

The report sets out to make a major impact on women in all countries - irrespective of their economic or political status. Clearly the biggest barriers to gender equality are existing social norms. Therefore the report encourages leaders to proactively influence and re-shape the social norms that are so engrained in our society. In this endeavour, legislation must inevitably play an important role. Conducting campaigns to sensitize both women and men, as well as constructive work with role models will be other important steps in this process.

The report continues to promote the overall vision that no woman should be left behind and contains a whole catalogue of suggested actions that can transform the world and bring about gender equality. This will happen by driving changes in the following domains:

Reforming legislation: by abolishing discriminatory laws and introducing laws that protect the rights of women (i.e. equal pay, equal access to finance, the right to own and inherit property, equal access to education etc..) Undoubtedly social norms will either make it easier or harder to introduce and apply legislation. Informative campaigns about the protection offered by legislation will be just one way to support increasing non-discriminatory legislation.

Revolutionising care work: by acknowledging care as a human right and introducing new models, which protect women and reduce unpaid labour.

Introducing fair standards for women's inclusion: which allow women to take part in work within industries involving supply chain and procurement.

The solutions proposed are realistic and based on a win-win approach. They can easily be applied in all different sectors, from the public and private sectors to civil society and women at large. There is a particular focus on digital and financial inclusion as a key driver of immediate potential change.

Looking back on the many consultations, the extraordinary meetings with men and women from all walks of life, diverse cultures and economic conditions as well as the excellent research which has preceded this last step - one thing is absolutely clear: Our global prosperity and sustainability will rely on women's economic empowerment. Let us grasp this opportunity and fight to bring about these changes to build a better world.

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Simona Scarpaleggia, co-chair of the UN High Level Panel on Women's Economic Empowerment and CEO of IKEA Switzerland, was a featured speaker at the 2016 Women's Forum Global Meeting.

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How to achieve gender equality worldwide by 2030? Here's the report.

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Today marks the last important milestone in a journey, which began one year ago in New York City. When the UN High Level Panel on Women's Economic Empowerment met for the first time last year it was faced with the seemingly impossible task of making concrete recommendations to achieve gender equality worldwide by the year 2030.

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Facts of "The gender wars of house hold chores" (reading 3)

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Facts of "The gender wars of house hold chores" (reading 3)

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In this reading we can learn that we haven't reach gender equality  due to the way we learn in our house, we are used to see our  dad following instructions and our mom getting in charge of everything. Kids should be raised with parents who both help with the household chores and where women don’t have a lot of pressure.

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ENGLISH SPEECH | EMMA WATSON: Gender Equality (English Subtitles)

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Facts of "The gender wars of household chores" (reading 3)

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Facts of "The gender wars of household chores" (reading 3)

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In this comic we can see that the author was trying to explain to people the importance of how the household chores are divided in a house, because most of the time women are the ones who work in all of the household chores . Which all these causes a lot o pressure to women.

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Some facts that we can see in the second reading are that flexible workers do not offer equal opportunities for men and women, since women, who have a flexible job, spend more time at home instead of being able to do other things with their time, and the men engaging in more work, even if they are not paid, this malfunction reinforces gender roles.

So there it is the thing we have to change, studies have shown that when gender norms become more progressive it helps reduce traditional gender roles. Also, if flexible work increases and excessive work is less frequent, this could give better results.

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According to the article of "The Guardian" one way to achieve gender equality in our lifetimes is talking to women and girls, in the article the mention "in every realm is that women and girls’ voices are too often excluded from global and national decision-making".

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Some of the ways you can promote gender equality are very simple, for example: Sharing the house hold chores, vote for women, support and giving equal opportunities at works schools and in your free time or whenever you see someone ask for help.

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The problem of gender equality isn't new, continues to be fought against in both the social, labor and personal spheres.

Some problems are distributing housework, being able to have flexible jobs, seeing that both genders are the same and with the same capacities, that they deserve the same opportunities, among others.

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Gender equality means that the different behaviours, aspirations and needs of women and men are considered, valued and favoured equally. It does not mean that women and men have to become the same, but that their rights, responsibilities and opportunities will not depend on whether they are born male or female.

Source (APA): Bot, M. (2020). Gender Equality: What Does it Mean and How Can We Make it Happen?. Retrieved 5 May 2020, from https://www.thepolyglotgroup.com/news/what-does-gender-equality-mean-to-you-pressforprogress/