The Gender Snapshot 2023

The Gender Snapshot 2023

News: The “Progress on the Sustainable Development Goals: The Gender Snapshot 2023” report, jointly produced by UN Women and UN DESA, provides a comprehensive analysis of gender equality progress across all 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

What is Gender Equality?
• The United Nations states that gender equality 'means that women and men, and girls and boys, enjoy the same rights, resources, opportunities, and protections. It does not require that girls and boys, or women and men, be the same, or that
they be treated exactly alike'
• Achieving gender equality also requires eliminating harmful practices against women and girls, including sex trafficking, femicide,
wartime sexual violence, the gender wage gap, and other oppression tactics.

What are the key findings of the report?
• Gender Equality Progress - Halfway to the end point of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the world is failing to achieve gender equality, making it an increasingly distant goal.
• Poverty and Food Insecurity - If current trends continue, more than 340 million women and girls will still live in extreme poverty by 2030, and close to one in four will experience moderate or severe food insecurity.
• Climate Change Impact - Growing vulnerability brought on by human-induced climate change is likely to worsen this outlook. As many as 236 million more women and girls will be food-insecure under a worstcase climate scenario.
• Gender Gap in Power and Leadership - The gender gap in power and leadership positions remains entrenched. At the current rate of progress, the next generation of women will still spend on average 2.3 more hours per day on unpaid care and domestic work than men.
• Violence Against Women - No country is within reach of eradicating intimate partner violence.
• Workplace Management Positions - Women’s share of workplace management positions will remain below parity even by 2050.
• Finance aspect - An additional $360 billion per year is needed to achieve gender equality and women’s empowerment across global goals.
• Girls’ Education - Fair progress has been made in girls’ education, but completion rates remain below the universal mark.

Key Recommendations:
• The report advocates for an integrated, holistic approach to advancing gender equality, involving multistakeholder collaboration and sustained financial backing. It warns that neglecting to amplify efforts and invest in gender parity jeopardizes the entire 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.