UN Women has released a major report, Progress of the World’s Women 2015-2016: Transforming Economies, Realizing Rights, which brings together human rights and economic policymaking to call for far-reaching changes to the global policy agenda that will transform economies and make women’s rights and equality a reality.
Progress makes the case that the alternative economic agenda it outlines would not only create fairer societies, it would also create new sectors of employment, for instance in the care economy.
The report is being published as the international community comes together to define a transformative new agenda for sustainable development, 20 years after the landmark Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, China, which set out an ambitious agenda to advance gender equality.
Through solid, in-depth analysis and data, this evidence-based report provides ten key recommendations for actions that governments and others can take in order to move towards an economy that truly works for women, to the benefit of all.
Progress sets out a vision of a global economy fit for women, where they have equal access to productive resources and social protection, which provides them with sufficient income to support an adequate standard of living.
The report informs a great part of the School of Women and Gender Studies curriculum and will guide future course reviews and design of new courses that are best geared towards the realisation of the Sustainable Development Goals.
It will be launched on Friday, June 19, 2015.
See below details on the report
