DVM 2106 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: United Nations Global Compact, Communist International, United Nations Foundation
21 Jun 2018
School
Course
Professor
LECTURE 12: Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment (Rebecca Tissen)
Global Commitments
- SDGs have 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 goals and 168 indicators
- The Addis Ababa Action Agenda of the Third International Conference on Financing for
Development (2015) calls for an enabling environment for women’s economic empowerment
and sustainable development that includes, among other commitments, women’s rights to
economic and productive resources.
-The Grand Bargain and World Humanitarian Summit’s Agenda for Humanity (2016),
acknowledges the importance of women’s and girls’ full and equal participation in all spheres
and in decision-making, noting that women’s access to livelihood opportunities must be
expanded.
- The United Nations Global Compact 2018 identified 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.
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- 90% of laws in developing countries are discriminatory against women (owning property, asking
permission, etc.
Lots of Roadmaps
- A Roadmap for Promoting Women’s Economic Empowerment by the UN Foundation and
Exxonobil Foundation
- Recognizes important priorities for sustainable development, inclusive growth and women’s
empowerment
Lots of rhetoric:
- Empowering women is a key driver of successful economy (Trudeau)
- WB: gender equality is smart economics
- Advancing women’s equality can add $12 trillion to global growth
- Closing gender gap in work can increase global GDP by $28 trillion by 2025
- Women remain “a huge, untapped” economic resource, “untapped source of growth”
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Document Summary
Lecture 12: gender equality and women"s empowerment (rebecca tissen) Sdgs have 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 goals and 168 indicators. The addis ababa action agenda of the third international conference on financing for. Development (2015) calls for an enabling environment for women"s economic empowerment and sustainable development that includes, among other commitments, women"s rights to economic and productive resources. The grand bargain and world humanitarian summit"s agenda for humanity (2016), acknowledges the importance of women"s and girls" full and equal participation in all spheres and in decision-making, noting that women"s access to livelihood opportunities must be expanded. The united nations global compact 2018 identified 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.
