This report presents the latest evidence on gender equality across all 17 Sustainable Development Goals, focusing not only on the current level of progress, but also on the likelihood of achieving gender equality across the Goals at the current trajectory. Among this year’s recommendations is a call to significantly expand national investments and international financing in support of gender equality.
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This report summarizes the key findings and lessons learned of the application of the UN Women–ILO policy tool, “How to assess fiscal stimulus packages from a gender…
“Safe consultations with survivors of violence against women and girls” provides practical steps, safety measures, and actions that government agencies, civil society…
This paper argues for investing in free universal high quality childcare services in order to reduce gender inequality in earnings and employment. It estimates the…
A guide to public investments in the care economy: Policy support tool for estimating care deficits…
UN Women has emerged as a global leader in the promotion of the care economy, and this work has highlighted the urgent need to invest in childcare facilities through…
Across the world, the care of children continues to be primarily provided by women and girls, and such a burden constrains their ability to participate equally in…
The present brief discusses the adverse impact of COVID-19 in the ability of women, girls, transgender and gender non-conforming persons with disabilities in meeting…
This study, based on data from 59 low- and middle-income countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, Central and Southern Asia, and sub-Saharan Africa, finds that…
Investing in free universal childcare in the Republic of North Macedonia: Analysis of costs, short-…
This paper examines the case for investing in free universal childcare services in North Macedonia in order to reduce gender inequality in employment, labour market…
This handbook provides practical guidance, elaborated with case studies, on how additional fiscal space can be created for a universal social protection system. The…
This discussion paper makes the case for investing in free universal childcare services of high quality in order to reduce gender inequality in earnings and employment.…