UN Women is the UN entity dedicated to gender equality and the empowerment of women. Gender inequality is pervasive, with women lacking access to decent employment and facing gender wage gaps.

Nine key recommendations on the UN’s role in promoting democracy and gender equality emerged from the Round Table: 1 Continue to use temporary special measures (such as quotas), where appropriate, to increase women’s political participation, but recognize that quotas are not in themselves sufficient to bring about gender equality.

UN Women acts to empower women and girls across all its programmes and advocacy. With stepped up action on gender equality, every part of the world can make progress towards sustainable development by 2030, leaving no one behind.

06/10/2021 · UN Women’s latest report, together with UN DESA, Progress on the Sustainable Development Goals: The Gender Snapshot 2021 presents the latest data on gender equality across all 17 Sustainable Development Goals. The report highlights the progress made since 2015 but also the continued alarm over the COVID-19 pandemic, its immediate effect on women’s …

The Women’s Empowerment Principles (WEPs) are a set of Principles offering guidance to business on how to promote gender equality and women’s empowerment in the workplace, marketplace and community. Established by UN Global Compact and UN Women in 2010, the WEPs are informed by international labour and human rights standards and grounded in the …

The Role of Faith-Based Organizations, Institutions and Actors in Achieving Gender Equality Through the Implementation of Agenda 2030 UN Women collaborated with the World YWCA to convene a discussion on religion and gender equality at the 60th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women.