DVM 2106 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Marital Rape, Root Mean Square, Natural Disaster

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: International Development and Globalization
• Course: DVM 2106
• Professor: Ishara Mahat

Document Summary

The 2030 agenda for sustainable development (2015) has made gender equality a priority for promoting sustained and inclusive economic growth, decent work, and innovation; women"s economic empowerment is prominent within the 17 global goals and 168 indicators. The sendai framework (2015) highlights the empowerment of women and girls in disaster risk reduction using a gender perspective to underscore their speci c vulnerabilities and to build their capacity for alternate livelihoods in post-disaster situations. The united nations global compact (2018) identi ed a set of women"s. Empowerment principles and the gender gap tool to assess a company"s commitments to gender equality and women"s empowerment in the workplace, within markets and in communities. The united nations high level panel on women"s economic empowerment (2017) outlines barriers, recommendations and actions. Improved public sector practices protect women from being red if they become pregnant.