İnformation on Sustainable Development Goals
Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
While the world has achieved progress
towards gender equality and women’s
empowerment under the Millennium Development Goals (including equal access to
primary education between girls and boys), women and girls continue to suffer
discrimination and violence in every part of the world.
Gender equality is not only a
fundamental human right, but a necessary foundation for a peaceful, prosperous
and sustainable world.
Providing women and girls with equal
access to education, health care, decent work, and representation in political
and economic decision-making processes will fuel sustainable economies and
benefit societies and humanity at large.
Source: United Nations, www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/gender-equality/
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5.1. End all forms of discrimination against all women and girls everywhere.
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5.2. Eliminate all forms of violence against all women and girls in the public and private spheres, including trafficking and sexual and other types of exploitation.
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5.3. Eliminate all harmful practices, such as child, early and forced marriage and female genital mutilation.
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5.4. Recognize and value unpaid care and domestic work through the provision of public services, infrastructure and social protection policies and the promotion of shared responsibility within the household and the family as nationally appropriate.
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5.5. Ensure women’s full and effective participation and equal opportunities for leadership at all levels of decision-making in political, economic and public life.
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5.6. Ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights as agreed in accordance with the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development and the Beijing Platform for Action and the outcome documents of their review conferences.
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5.a. Undertake reforms to give women equal rights to economic resources, as well as access to ownership and control over land and other forms of property, financial services, inheritance and natural resources, in accordance with national laws.
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5.b. Enhance the use of enabling technology, in particular information and communications technology, to promote the empowerment of women.
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5.c. Adopt and strengthen sound policies and enforceable legislation for the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls at all levels.
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5.1.1 Whether or not legal frameworks are in place to promote, enforce and monitor equality and non-discrimination on the basis of sex
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5.2.1 Proportion of ever-partnered women and girls aged 15 years and older subjected to physical, sexual or psychological violence by a current or former intimate partner in the previous 12 months, by form of violence and by age
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5.2.2 Proportion of women and girls aged 15 years and older subjected to sexual violence by persons other than an intimate partner in the previous 12 months, by age and place of occurrence
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5.3.1 Proportion of women aged 20–24 years who were married or in a union before age 15 and before age 18
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5.3.2 Proportion of girls and women aged 15–49 years who have undergone female genital mutilation/cutting, by age
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5.4.1 Proportion of time spent on unpaid domestic and care work, by sex, age and location
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5.5.1 Proportion of seats held by women in (a) national parliaments and (b) local governments
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5.5.2 Proportion of women in managerial positions
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5.6.1 Proportion of women aged 15–49 years who make their own informed decisions regarding sexual relations, contraceptive use and reproductive health care
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5.6.2 Number of countries with laws and regulations that guarantee full and equal access to women and men aged 15 years and older to sexual and reproductive health care, information and education
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5.a.1 (a) Proportion of total agricultural population with ownership or secure rights over agricultural land, by sex; and (b) share of women among owners or rights-bearers of agricultural land, by type of tenure
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5.a.2 Proportion of countries where the legal framework (including customary law) guarantees women’s equal rights to land ownership and/or control
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5.b.1 Proportion of individuals who own a mobile telephone, by sex
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5.c.1 Existence of systems of distribution and control of state allocations to ensure gender equality and expand women's opportunities and rights