SIGI 2023 Global Report
Gender Equality in Times of Crisis
What are the root causes of gender inequality? Building on the fifth edition of the Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI), the SIGI 2023 Global Report provides a global outlook of discriminatory social institutions, the fundamental causes of gender inequality. It reveals how formal and informal laws, social norms and practices limit women’s and girls’ rights and opportunities in all aspects of their lives. Globally, 40% of them continue to live in countries where gender-based discrimination is assessed as high or very high.
The report stresses how discriminatory social institutions curtail women’s and adolescents’ fundamental access to sexual and reproductive health and rights. It also sheds light on the gendered impacts of climate change and underlines how women can play a pivotal role in climate change mitigation and adaptation. To accelerate efforts aimed at achieving SDG 5 and eliminating the underlying and structural factors that hamper women’s empowerment, the report offers concrete policy actions. It calls for a gender-transformative approach to leverage crises and challenges into windows of opportunity to establish women and men as agents of change.
Editorial
With only seven years to go before 2030, the promise of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) – “leaving no one behind” – is compromised. Despite progress, gender equality remains a distant goal and the world is not on track to achieve SDG 5, nor the other gender-related targets. At the heart of our failure to achieve gender equality lie persistent discriminatory social institutions. These formal and informal laws, social norms and practices fundamentally dictate what women and men are allowed to do, what they are expected to do, and in the end what they do. In the overwhelming majority of cases, women lose out. Addressing them is essential because gender equality is not only a social and moral obligation – it is a fundamental lever for strong, green and inclusive economic development.
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