GENDER EQUALITY STILL A DISTANT GOAL

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 if the world fails to achieve gender equality.

This is according to the “Progress on the Sustainable Development Goals: The Gender Snapshot 2023” by UN Women and UNDESA,
which presents the latest evidence on gender equality across all 17 Goals, including prevailing trends and gaps on the road to 2030. It indicates the world is failing to achieve gender equality, making it an increasingly distant goal.

The report also shows 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 worst-case climate scenario. And, at the current slow 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.

Globally, an estimated $360 billion per year in additional funding towards gender equality is needed to advance progress on key areas of gender quality. The closer the world gets to 2030, the higher the costs and required investments and the lower the likelihood of success.
Read more here; unwomen.org