It have information about gender Equality , Gender , Equality, Equity .
Information about need of gender equity.
Ways to help and achieve gender equality.
Various information about gender equality.
2. WHAT IS GENDER ?
Culturally and socially constructed difference between
men and women that varies from place to place and
time to time.
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3. WHAT IS GENDER
EQUALITY ?
Gender equality is the
state of equal ease of
access to resources and
opportunities regardless
of gender, including
economic participation
and decision-making;
and the state of valuing
different behaviors,
aspirations and needs
equally, regardless of
gender.
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4. WHY IS GENDER EQUALITY
IMPORTANT ?
Gender equality is basically linked to sustainable
development and is vital to the realization of human
rights for all. The overall objective of gender equality is
a society in which women and men enjoy the same
opportunities, rights and duties in all spheres of life.
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6. QUOTES
“We’ve begun to raise
daughters more like sons…
but few have the courage to
raise our sons more like
our daughters.”
― Gloria Steinem
“How important it is for us
to recognize and celebrate
our heroes and she-roes!”
― Maya Angelou
“It is time that we all see
gender as a spectrum
instead of two sets of
opposing ideals.”
― Emma Watson
“Achieving gender equality
requires the engagement of
women and men, girls and
boys. It is everyone’s
responsibility.”
— Ban Ki-moon
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7. GENDER EQUALITY AND GENDER
EQUITY
GENDER EQUALITY GENDER EQUITY
Gender equality is the goal,
while gender equity is
practices and ways of
thinking that help in
achieving the goal.
Gender equity means
fairness of treatment for
women and men, according
to their respective needs. This
may include equal treatment
or treatment that is different,
but which is considered
equivalent in terms of rights,
benefits, obligations, and
opportunities.
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9. The Global Gender Gap Index was first introduced by the
World Economic Forum in 2006 as a framework for
capturing the magnitude of gender-based disparities and
tracking their progress over time.
WHAT IS GLOBAL GENDER GAP INDEX ?
COUNTRIES WITH LOWEST GLOBAL GENDER GAP INDEX
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10. BASIS OF GLOBAL GENDER INDEX?
1. Economic Participation
and Opportunity
2. Educational
3. Health AND
4. Political
Empowerment
In addition, this year’s
edition studies skills
gender gaps related to
Artificial Intelligence
(AI).
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11. RANK OF INDIA IN GLOBAL
GENDER GAP INDEX
India has been ranked 108th in World Economic
Forum (WEF) gender gap index, same as 2017, while
recording improvement in wage equality for similar
work and fully closing its tertiary education gender gap
for the first time.
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12. GENDER EQUALITY IN INDIA
In the past decade, while Indian GDP has grown by
around 6%, there has been a large decline in female
labour force participation from 34% to 27%. The male-
female wage gap has been stagnant at 50% (a recent
survey finds a 27% gender pay gap in white-collar
jobs).
In India, most of the time property ,money and
surname is inheritance through male descendants
and married couples living with or near the
husband’s parents play a central role in gender
inequality .
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14. TO MAKE GENDER EQUALITY
POSSIBLE
Make education gender sensitive
There has been much progress in increasing access to
education, but progress has been slow in improving
the gender sensitivity of the education system,
including ensuring textbooks promote positive
stereotypes.
Raise aspirations of girls and their parents
One of the key strategies must be to change how girls,
families and society imagine what girls can be and can
do. We need to give girls images and role models that
expand their dreams.
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15. Give proper value to ‘women’s work’
The unpaid work women and girls do provide the
foundation for the global economy. This fact needs to
be highlighted more in the media, with the private .
LISTEN AND REFLECT
One of the main obstacles to eliminating prejudice is
that people have difficulty recognizing that it really
exists. Research has already proven that we all
reproduce stereotypes and pre-existing notions on
many topics, including gender and race. sector and in
communities.
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TO MAKE GENDER EQUQLITY
POSSIBLE .
WE NEED TO CHANGE OURSELF.
WE NEED TO BREAK THE OLD
IDEOLGY.
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Kofi Atta Annan was a Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh Secretary-General of
the United Nations from January 1997 to December 2006. Annan and the UN were the co-
recipients of the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize.