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Achieve gender equality and empower women and girls.

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Nurses play a pivotal role if helping to achieve gender equality and women empowerment.

Nurses biggest role is providing non-biased care to everyone. Nurses play a part in the main targets of this goal.

Nurses play a part as being an advocate for patients and helping patients feel empowered in their own healthcare choices. Nurses also should educate their patients on topics such as reproductive rights.

Nurses can help with gender discrimination by standing up when it is seen and understanding their own biases.

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Gender inequality is a global a issue that is seen constantly. We see in different countries how men are held above women societally. The U.N. (n.d.) discusses how gender equality is seen as a human right.

"1 in 5 women and girls between the ages of 15 and 49 report experiencing physical or sexual violence by an intimate partner within a 12-month period" (U.N, n.d.). This shows that women are seen as being a vulnerable population and being targeted for violence.

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The article that I chose expand on focused on how gender plays on the role of having to balance work and home life. The article discusses how women are having more responsibilities when it comes to work and then at home such as housework and care for the family. Women are seen as being able to have better balance than men because they are having to balance more work. On the downside of this though women may be more at risk for negative outcomes because of it.

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Chung, H. & Lippe, T. (2018). Flexible working, work-life balance, and gender equality: Introduction. Springer, p.p. 365-381. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-018-2025-x

Rosa, W. (2017). Goal 10, reduce  inequality within and among countries. A New Era in Global Health, p.p.331-337. Springer Publishing Company.

United Nations. (n.d.).

Goal 5: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls. https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/gender-equality/

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Sustainable development goals are 17 goals that were made to be the outline or guide to creating a better future and environment. Goals such as poverty, hunger, climate change, and gender equality.
These goals matter because they address issues that affect us globally and can affect our day-to-day life. SDGs affect all countries and all people not just a few.

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Barriers to Participating in Meeting the Goals Target 

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Barriers to Participating in Meeting the Goals Target 

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The targets for this goal focus on getting rid of discrimination against women, equal opportunities and reproductive rights (U.N., n.d.).

One barrier that we are seeing in trying to work on gender equality is the COVID-19 pandemic. It has set back progress that has been made. It has also caused an increase in violence for women. This is caused by women being at home with their abusers and not being able to leave due to quarantine.