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- 1. Malini Srikrishna Colleen Pezzutti Brandon Kramer Imnet Arega
- 2. Introduction • Gender Inequality is a global problem. So, what is it? • Some countries are more severe than others. • India has 600 million women, this is the second largest female population in the world. • UN figures state that girls are twice as likely to die before the age of 5. • Culture and Religion are the basis of discrimination in India.
- 3. Gender Inequality in India • General Repression of Women ■ Religious Basis ■ Cultural Basis (Both often correlated)
- 4. Religious Discrimination •Two Prominent Religions: 1. Hindu Women •Widows •Dowry System •Sati 2. Muslim Women •Triple Talaq •Polygamy •Ancient Scriptures
- 5. Cultural Discrimination- Gender Roles • Marriage • Idea of ‘Marital Rape’ not accepted. • Women in Joint Families • Sexual Exploitation
- 6. UN Action Objectives: • equal enrollment of boys and girls in primary/ secondary school • equal literacy rates of genders • equal representation in national parliaments • promotion of greater support of men for women’s rights
- 7. UN Action Cont. Initiatives: • HeforShe campaign • Strategy groups • Work of specialized UN divisions: UN Girls’ Education Initiative, UN Trust Fund to End Violence against Women, United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization
- 8. Progress Toward Goal • Past 15 years: increase in enrollment of girls in school ■ Southern Asia: “only 74 girls were enrolled in primary school for every 100 boys in 1990. Today, 103 girls are enrolled for every 100 boys” • Since 1990 percentage of female paid workers has increased 6% outside of the agricultural sector
- 9. Progress cont. • Percentage of women in vulnerable employment has decreased 13% in past 24 years • Average proportion of women in parliament has almost doubled in past 20 years
- 10. Progress Still in Progress • Percentage of women living in poverty is greater than percentage of men • Of working-age women, only half are a part of the labour force
- 11. Progress Still in Progress Cont. • Globally women are receiving 24% less in wages than men • Even women with high education levels, are less likely to be employed compared to their male counterparts • Women representation in parliament averages only 1 out of 5
- 12. Plans for Further Improvement • focus on data development • increase access to real time data • improve coverage of statistics • utilize new technology for data collection • promote greater data literacy
Editor's Notes
- -UN Women launched campaign in 2014 called ‘HeforShe” to promote greater support of men for women’s rights. The UN believes in order to one day achieve absolute gender equality, men and women alike need to believe in the importance of this idea of equality and advocate for it until it is no longer an issue. -Millennium Development Goals strategy groups within each country. The groups are led by each nation’s government and work in alliance with representatives from various local organizations, and women’s groups. UN agencies will also work with these strategy groups to support them in technological and financial means. -UN Girls’ Education Initiative: give support to the passing of new legislation and policies to make school more accessible to all women -The UN Women created the UN Trust Fund to End Violence against Women to raise funds and use them to combat violence toward women -The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has a partnership with Procter and Gamble to facilitate programs to improve literacy skills amongst girls. They provide the necessary tools and supplies to girls and the teachers who help them develop and learn.
- - increase in women members of parliament: we’ve seen this increase in almost 90% of the 174 countries with data
- - ¾ of working-age men are a part of the labour force
- -we can only improve upon areas of weakness that we are able to identify and quantify