Gender equality is ‘300 years away,’ U.N. chief warns
Washington PostAPR 20 2023
Equal Measures 2030, a group of non-governmental organizations (NGOs), Wednesday published its 2024 SDG Gender Index report. The report found that from 2019-2022, almost 1B women in 40% of countries faced declining or stagnating gender equality.
During that time span, according to the report, gender equality declined in 17 countries, remained the same in 36, made "some progress" in 45, and made "fast progress" in 41. Based on these trends, it claims just 68.9% of the world will have gender equality by 2030.
Some of the issues faced in the 45 lowest-ranked countries — including parts of West, Central, and sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East, Bangladesh, and Myanmar — were forced pregnancies, child marriages, and exclusion from education.
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