Gender Equality: Addressing a Critical Issue for Global Prosperity

This essay examines gender equality as a critical global issue, highlighting its importance for peaceful and sustainable development. It discusses how women are often disempowered from a young age, facing barriers to education and economic opportunities, and earning less than men globally. The essay emphasizes that gender equality is a fundamental human right and a foundation for a better world, referencing the UN Women’s report on progress in families. It advocates for gender-sensitive education, valuing women's work, increasing access to education for girls, and empowering women in leadership roles. The essay concludes by stressing the need for government and societal actions to overcome systematic barriers and promote gender equality in all sectors.

Essay

SECTION 1
Article name: SIX CRITICAL GLOBAL ISSUES: WHAT ARE THE WORLD’S BIGGEST
PROBLEMS AND HOW CAN I HELP?
Link: https://www.gvi.co.uk/blog/6-critical-global-issues-what-are-the-worlds-biggest-problems-
and-how-i-can-help/
SECTION 2
The current issue is tied to the need for gender equality as a worldwide issue since women
are disempowered from a young age, as they are prevented from attending school for economic
reasons or owing to numerous ideas that women's education is unimportant. Women still earn
less than males on a global scale, and women with children earn even less, which is seen as a
potential and hindrance to development on the global prosperity hurdles.
SECTION 3
Gender equality is not only the fundamental human right but also the important foundation
for the peaceful and sustainable world. There are some families or people around the world who
look, live and feel things differently. They focus on “make or break” for their girls and women
when it comes to achieve their rights. They can be places of care, love and fulfilment as they are
also having spaces where the rights of women are violated (Jordansson, 2017). As per the UN
women’s flagship report, there has been the significant progress that seen among women in
2019-2020 as the families are changing their world in terms of access the overall reality of
families in terms of sweeping the economy, demographic, political and social transformation.
The worldwide plan recognises the importance of gender equality in empowering women to
make informed decisions about their knowledge and health in order to seek and get the services
they desire. Women and those who are discriminated against because of their gender identity or
sexual orientation have unequal access to and utilisation of basic health services and other
resources. Discrimination in health-care settings must be eliminated, and women and teenage
girls must be aware of their rights and able to demand gender-sensitive services. Furthermore,
supportive environments for gender equality are intimately related to improved health and
socioeconomic outcomes.
Effective execution of the global strategy needs an effective response to the unequal gender
norms and significant actions in order to develop clear synergies and alignment across the other

sectors. Apart from that, government need to make education gender sensitive considering the
progress for increasing the access to education for the enhancement about gender sensitivity of
education considering making sure about the textbooks by promoting the positive stereotypes
(Lewis, 2017). People also need to provide proper value to the working of women by
highlighting in the media considering in private sector and in communities.
Let the women need to explore their skills and knowledge by exploring them as well
considering the increased access to education. Further, government also need to take great move
to enhance the number of girls considering the formal education by providing schools for girls in
each and every district. Get women into the power by overcoming several systematic barriers to
woman’s success that has been increased the participation by woman in local, regional and
national legislations considering the change agents.

REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Jordansson, B., 2017. Gender Equality in the Swedish Educational Sector: A Case Study on
Swedish Academia. In Understanding Attractive Work in a Globalized World (pp. 225-
240). Springer, Singapore.
Lewis, M.A., 2017. Gender equality: A view from beyond the ‘glass ceiling’. Feminist
Theology, 26(1), pp.101-109.