Sustainable Development Goals and Gender Equality

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Sustainable development goals influence gender equality, education and
shaping the future to empower women
This article explores the sustainable development goals and ways in
which these goals can influence gender equality and its impact upon
sustainability. Main goal of this article is to identify ways in which sustainable
development can enhance gender equality and ways in which it can influences
other sustainable development goals like education, no poverty, zero hunger and
good health and wellbeing. Gender equality helps in empowerment of ‘women
and girls’ as well as help in providing necessary targets for addressing some of
the issues that are faced by women and for making social changes and future
decision making in order to eliminate discrimination. This article analyses a
sustainable vision and would further investigate social, economic, and
environmental pillars to progress towards future with equal opportunities with
equal pay. These key concepts will create social change and would help in
encouraging more women to gain an education and create further employment
opportunities for addressing gender wage gap and gender division. In order to
achieve some of the main sustainable development goals for 2030 and for the
future of sustainability, this article would examine women in education and
employment through the political sphere, woman in leadership with political
power and how they are still facing challenges and ways in which this affects
gender equality. This document will further focus upon sustainable development
goals that shape and influence gender equality and the future for women to gain
an education, change stereotypes that can end poverty, and have a better health
and wellbeing.
Gender Equality, social pillar, and sustainable development within the SDGs
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Gender inequalities impact sustainable development. It is extremely
important to focus upon bringing improvement for equal opportunities for women.
One of the primary sustainable development goal is gender equality. Sustainable
development goals (SDGs) can be defined as a development plan and a guide
for all countries to follow key issues and frameworks that address the seventeen
global goals that will help nations to develop more sustainable future (Kates et
al., 2005, 12). Gender equality is one of the most important SDG vital issues. Its
specific goal is to empower women and for girls to have equal opportunities;
however, it further impact other sustainable development goals such as quality
education, zero hunger, poverty and decent work and economic growth (ref from
the UN). Examining concepts such as health, education, economics, and politics
can help in achieving positive outcome within reaching the sustainable
development goal ‘gender equality’ (Kim 2017, 242). For example, the
challenges within the political structure of only a certain number of women are
represented in political leadership. This raised concerns that there are not
enough women in power who can make decisions that can impact the future of
women’s rights and make necessary changes in particular areas such as the
gender wage gap.
Gender inequalities is one of the most important factor which is required
to be focused upon in terms of sustainability so that women can move ahead in
future for having equal decision making for their freedom, equal rights to work
opportunities, values and beliefs are expressed without judgment, and their ideas
are contributed to cultural, socioeconomic, and to the political environment
(Thiele 2016, 11). By examining SDGs, and their targets goals will enable its
progress and identify ways in which gender will affect the future of sustainable
development. This can help in identifying required necessary actions and
possible outcomes on framing a better social system and eradicating inequalities
within the social and economic spheres to empower women with future decision
making and promote future leadership.
Social, economic, and environmental pillars provide the necessary
frameworks to make social change through the political sphere to provide equal
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