The document discusses solutions for addressing gender concerns in sustainable development. It notes that globally, women lag behind men in many areas such as health, education, political participation, and pay. Gender inequality remains a problem worldwide that impacts development. The document proposes several solutions, including supporting organizations for home workers, ensuring basic employment rights, establishing childcare facilities, increasing access to education and credit for women, and promoting gender mainstreaming in government policies. It also discusses the importance of women's participation in decision making and the UN's focus on issues like poverty, women's access to resources, and health.

1. SOLUTIONS FOR
GENDER CONCERNS IN
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
UDAY YADAV
JAYANTH BALAJI
3 RD YR-B

2. THE CURRENT SITUATION
 Global statistics place women behind men in relation to
health, education, nutrition levels, political participation,
legal rights, equal pay for equal work, amongst many other
aspects of life.
 Gender inequity remains pervasive in all countries of the
world. This is both of public concern but also tied to individual
behaviour.
 Gender equality promotes development. Gender disparities
are barriers to development imposing heavy costs on society
in terms of reduced growth and lower poverty reduction.

3.  Conversely,
addressing gender
differences and
reducing gender
disparities through
sustainable
development projects
and policies can also
improve development
effectiveness and
sustainability.

4. SOLUTIONS
Women are typically denied basic working rights, such as
including minimum wages, regular work.
To tackle such issues, the private sector, domestically and
internationally, needs to further acknowledge the existence of
flexible and home workers in terms of the contribution they
make to production, including:
 Supporting home-based workers' organisations and ensuring
they are consulted in the development of codes of practice;
 Ensuring such codes incorporate the home workers’
entitlement to basic employment rights;

5.  Ensuring that women home workers, the poorest of all, do not
lose out due to moves that aim to improve conditions in global
production chains;
 Supporting independent women's collectives who can market
their own products, reducing consumer dependence on large
wholesalers, traders and merchants;
 Establishing appropriate facilities e.g. child care facilities;
 Ensuring adequate education and training for women (and
men) to aid employment opportunities;

6.  Increasing the number of qualified women in growing sectors,
such as Information Technologies, by investing in accessible
education and training for women;
 Increasing women employees' and associations' access to
credit.
 Governments could also undertake greater steps to improve
gender equity at work. They have a strong role in formulating
and implementing legislation but also they are major
employers. They thus have a powerful role of leading by
example.

7. GENDER MAINSTREAMING
Gender mainstreaming policies and procedural rules need to be
integrated into the workof all government depar tments, and adequate
monitoring mechanisms should be established. Strategies to encourage
gender balance in governance and sustainable development include:
 Full and equal par ticipation of women in the formulation of all policies
and decision making;
 Evaluating institutions for gender balance and action on gender issues ;
 Overcoming women's apathy and lack of under standing of government
processes with innovative types of outreach, including awareness raising, capacity -building, education and training of women and men;
and of all people in decision -making positions in all sector s and at all
levels (incl. changing curricula; public campaigns; developing gender
sensitivity training; guidelines for gender mainstreaming, etc);

8.  Making gender disaggregated information available and
supporting relevant research;
 Guiding young women towards careers as decision -makers in
sustainable development;
 Collecting and sharing good practices at local, national and
international levels; including peer group review of (good)
practice and promoting successful strategies;
 All such ef forts must be backed by adequate funding and
support, and should be monitored and evaluated for
ef fectiveness and replicability.

9. THE UN SUMMIT PROCESS
 Within the UN Summit processes, the international community
has, among others, identified the following priority issues,
providing an important framework for achieving
gender equality in sustainable development:
• Women's human rights and control over their lives;
• Poverty eradication;
• Women's access to, control and management of resources
and services;
• The impacts of globalisation;
• Finance for development;
• Health, including reproductive and environmental health.

10. THANK YOU
LET’S NOT
BE BIASED,
LET’S BRING
THE CHANGE.