SOCIAL AWARENESS PROGRAM

PRESENTATION
ON
‘GENDER EQUALITY IS HUMAN
EQUALITY’
BY
DHWANIT GARG
COL. RAJAT SONDHI
RISHABH AGARWAL
KSHITIJ AGARWAL
MBA (SCM), 2018-20
CIISOL, AUUP
 INTRODUCTION
 Gender inequality remains an everyday reality for the
world’s women and girls. It can begin right at the moment
of birth and continue throughout the course of a woman’s
life.
 Despite critical advances over the course of recent
history, women in all countries and across all
socioeconomic levels in society can face various forms of
unfair treatment, including discrimination, harassment,
domestic violence and sexual abuse.
WOMEN DISCRIMINATION AND ABUSES

 Forms of abuse that are particularly prevalent in certain

countries or cultural contexts include forced marriage,
honor killings, deprivation of education, denial of land and
property rights, and lack of access to work and to health
care.
 Women may experience human rights abuses at different
points in their working lives, including during recruitment,
hiring, promotion and termination processes, as well as in
daily interactions with colleagues and supervisors.
VULNERABILITY TO BUSINESS ACTIVITIES

 In many developing countries, women and girls are primarily responsible for
fetching and hauling water.
 When company operations contaminate local sources, it is they who carry the
burden of walking, often for hours, to the nearest substitute, which can
prevent them from working or going to school.
 But although there are more women than ever in the labour market, there are
still large inequalities in some regions, with women systematically denied the
same work rights as men.
 Sexual violence and exploitation, the unequal division of unpaid care and
domestic work, and discrimination in public office all remain huge barriers.
 Climate change and disasters continue to have a disproportionate effect on
women and children, as do conflict and migration.
UNITED NATION’S TAKE ON GENDER EQUALITY
 According to the UN Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of
Women (UN Women), gender “refers to the social attributes and
opportunities associated with being male and female and the relationships
between women and men and girls and boys, as well as the relations
between women and those between men. These attributes, opportunities and
relationships are socially constructed and are learned through socialization
processes.”
 Furthermore, gender equality “refers to the equal rights, responsibilities
and opportunities of women and men and girls and boys. Equality does not
mean that women and men will become the same but that women’s and men’s
rights, responsibilities and opportunities will not depend on whether they are
born male or female.”
 UNDP has made gender equality central to its work and we’ve seen remarkable
progress in the past 20 years. There are more girls in school now compared to
15 years ago, and most regions have reached gender parity in primary
education.
UN GOALS TO BOOST GENDER EQUALITY

End hunger, achieve

food security and Ensure healthy lives
End poverty in all its
improved nutrition and and promote well-
forms everywhere
promote sustainable being for all at all ages
agriculture

Ensure inclusive and

Ensure availability and
equitable quality Achieve gender
sustainable
education and promote equality and empower
management of water
lifelong learning all women and girls
and sanitation for all
opportunities for all
 UN GOALS Cont..

Promote sustained, inclusive

and sustainable economic Make cities and human
Reduce inequality within and
growth, full and productive settlements inclusive, safe,
among countries 
employment and decent resilient and sustainable
work for all

Promote peaceful and

inclusive societies for
Take urgent action to sustainable development,
combat climate change and provide access to justice for
its impacts all and build effective,
accountable and inclusive
institutions at all levels
INITIATIVES BY DIFFERENT COMPANIES
 A global apparel company is aiming to address issues around women’s
health and equality in the workplace via peer-to-peer training,
sensitization among senior management, and accessible complaint
channels at the factory level.
 The largest supermarkets in the United Kingdom are working together
on a product-specific project that engages importers and local civil
society groups, government actors, exporters, farmers and workers to
promote decent work for strawberry pickers in Morocco who are
women.
 The agricultural industry in the United States is seeing real
transformation in the lives of women farmworkers who too often face
gender discrimination and sexual abuse in the fields.
 FACTS AND FIGURES

77 cents 1 in 3 13%
• Women earn • 35 percent of • Women
only 77 cents women have represent
for every experienced just 13
dollar that physical percent of
men get for and/or sexual agricultural
the same violence. landholders.
work.
 FACTS AND FIGURES Cont..

750 million 2 of 3 24%

• Almost 750 • Two thirds of • Only 24 percent
million women developing of national
and girls alive countries have parliamentarians
today were achieved gender were women as
married before parity in primary of November
their 18th education. 2018, a small
birthday. increase from
11.3 percent in
1995.
 CONCLUSION
 Women and girls comprise half of the planet’s population; their empowerment is
essential in expanding economic growth and promoting social development in a
sustainable way.
 In many cases, the full participation of women in the workforce would add double-
digit percentage points to national growth rates. 
 Evidence from around the world shows that gender equality advancements have a
ripple effect on all areas of sustainable development, from reducing poverty,
hunger and even carbon emissions to enhancing the health, well-being and
education of entire families, communities and countries. 
 In fact, “equality between women and men is seen both as a human rights issue and
as a precondition for, and indicator of, sustainable people-centered development.”
 Ending all discrimination against women and girls is not only a basic human right,
it’s crucial for sustainable future; it’s proven that empowering women and girls
helps economic growth and development.
 It is vital to give women equal rights land and property, sexual and reproductive
health, and to technology and the internet. Today there are more women in public
office than ever before, but encouraging more women leaders will help achieve
greater gender equality.
THANK YOU!