Report on SDG 5 Gender Equality: Australian Efforts and Future Action

This report provides an overview of Sustainable Development Goal 5 (SDG 5), which focuses on achieving gender equality and empowering women and girls. It identifies the main features of the current crises that SDG 5 aims to address, including the disproportionate burden of unpaid domestic and care work on women, exacerbated by the pandemic. The report examines how groups in Australia have responded to these challenges, such as the UN Women's efforts to empower women and integrate gender considerations into COVID-19 response plans. It also discusses potential personal and professional contributions to addressing gender inequality, particularly within the healthcare sector, emphasizing the importance of identifying and addressing gender-related issues within workplaces. The report concludes by reiterating the significance of SDG 5 in eliminating discrimination and promoting women's leadership and participation in economic and political decision-making, highlighting the need for equitable distribution of resources and responsibilities.

Sustainable development goals SDG5
gender equality

Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................1
What are the main features of the current crisis/es that this SDG is looking to address?...........1
How have groups in Australia addressed the current crisis/es, and how successful have they...1
been?............................................................................................................................................1
What can you personally and professionally do (now, and potentially in the future) to
contribute to addressing this current crisis/es?............................................................................2
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................2
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................3

INTRODUCTION
Sustainable development is considered as an arranging principle for meeting the individual’s
development objectives while also sustaining the capabilities of natural system for providing the
natural resources as well as ecosystem facilities upon that the economy and society depends.
Additionally, this always inspires us to conserve as well as maximise the resources, through
gradually modifying the ways wherein individuals develop and utilise technologies. The topics
which are going to be discussed in this report is key features of current crisis that SDG seeks to
address, groups in Australia addressed the current crisis and what individuals personally and
professionally do.
MAIN BODY
What are the main features of the current crisis/es that this SDG is looking to address?
SDGs is also known as international goals. Sustainable Development Goal 5 is related to
gender equality as well as is fifth of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals which was developed
by the United Nations in year 2015. In respect of official words The SDG 5 is “Achieve gender
equality and empower whole women and girls”. In addition to this, also progress towards goals is
evaluated through indicators. Its key aim is to attain the gender equality through ending overall
kinds of discrimination, violence and any harmful activities against women as well as girls in
public and private regions. This also calls for the fuller participation of women & equal chance
for leadership at overall level of economical and political decision making. So, the main features
of the current crisis/es that this SDG is looking to address is gender inequality in which the
pandemic added the burden of unpaid domestic as well as care work and squeezing women out
of labour force.
How have groups in Australia addressed the current crisis/es, and how successful have they
been?
The groups in Australia addressed the current crisis/es that is the pandemic added the burden of
unpaid domestic as well as care work and squeezing women out of labour force. As women
perform 2.6 times much unpaid care as well as domestic work in comparison to men. Whereas
families, societies and economies based upon the work for women, this drives towards lower
earnings and lesser period for engaging into non work activities. Along with equal distribution of
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economical resources, that is not only appropriate but accelerates growth into various areas.
Also, there needs to be fair balance of accountabilities for unpaid care work among women and
men. In addition to this, The UN women acts to empower women and girls are trying to enforced
across overall their session and advocacy. Also, with all COVID-19 response plans and each
recovery package as well as budgeting of resources required for addressing the gender impacts of
pandemic. it includes women as well as women’s firms in COVID-19 response planning and
decision taking. The other one is transforming the inequalities of unpaid care work within new
inclusive care economy which performs for all. The third one is developing socio economical
plans with intentional concentration upon the lives and upcoming of women & girls.
What can you personally and professionally do (now, and potentially in the future) to contribute
to addressing this current crisis/es?
As a health care workers, personally and professional that I can do is that try to observe that
not any such things happen near me and if so then I would have to take some action related to
particular situation. In professional manner, within workplace I can talk to management and
board members about it and try to identify the problems why such things are happing. Also, try
to get a relevant solution regarding gender equality issues.
CONCLUSION
As per the above, it has been concluded that the Sustainable Development Goal 5 key aim is
to attain the gender equality through ending overall kinds of discrimination, violence and any
harmful activities against women as well as girls in public and private regions. This also calls for
the fuller participation of women & equal chance for leadership at overall level of economical
and political decision making.
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REFERENCES
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