Despite several struggles and effort from years back by women for gender equality, a recently released report shows that some countries won’t attain the gender equality targets in 10 years.
Gender equality in simpler term is when rights and opportunities are not affected or hundred by gender. This however is very important to the realization, achievement, and fulfillment of human rights for all.
Out of the 129 countries, according to the ‘Bending the Curve Towards Gender Equality by 2030’ report, 67 countries won’t allow for girls’ education. This directly translates to girls won’t be allowed access to Education as boys do. There will also not be access to contraception, workplace equality law, safety, and even Political leadership.
According to Alison Holder, the Director Equal Measures 2030, many countries are not making progress on really important issues that directly affect the lives and future of billions of girls and women in the world. They remain stagnant on issues like girls and women finishing school and also if they have equal rights at work.
While there is a little improvement in girls completing secondary school globally and women taking a powerful position in governments, access to contraception however is moving as slow as a slug as some countries remain backward and stagnant. 36 countries received a high score in the improvement of workplace equality laws.
Sivananthi Thanenthiran, the Executive Director of the Asian-Pacific Resource and Research Centre for Women (ARROW) made it known that something as fundamental as feeling safe is denied some women. Women feel so unsafe walking their neighborhood at night. In fact, over the years, this sad situation worsened.
While some countries remain backward and show no notable progress, in fact, they seem to be dragging everyone down with their progress, some countries made progress, however. The number of girls that completed secondary school in Ghana moved from the 5% it was in 2003 to 40% 12 years later.
Rwanda also made notable progress in its access to contraception. Women who were covered in 2000 were just 12% but it increased greatly to 69% 2 years ago.
In the space of fewer than 15 years, Uruguay who had no women ministers went to 42 percent. Canada went to 30% parity or equality in the space of 4 years. Ethiopia also went from 10 percent to 48% in one year.
If all countries make very conscious effort to match up the pace of fast-moving countries, in the next 10 years, about three quarters of women and girl in the world will live in countries that have reached about 4 or 5.