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Sustainability: Gender Equality Year of publication: 2019 Corporate author: CSR Egypt This video deals with the concept of the fifth goal of the sustainable development goals (gender equality) and that women have a fundamental role to achieve the goals of sustainable development, and that is why they must be given the opportunity and support to obtain all their rights and effective participation in the advancement of Arab societies. 
Global Gender Gap Report 2021: Insight Report, March 2021 Year of publication: 2021 Corporate author: World Economic Forum The report is a measure of gender gap on four parameters: economic participation and opportunity, educational attainment, health and survival, and political empowerment. The index has benchmarked 156 nations across the globe in 2021. The data show that it will take 135.6 years to bridge the gender gap worldwide and the pandemic has impacted women more severely than men. The gap is the widest on the political empowerment dimension with economic participation and opportunity being next in line. However, the gap on educational attainment and health and survival has been practically bridged. 
Putting Gender at the Forefront of the COVID-19 Education Response: Common Messaging Framework Year of publication: 2020 Corporate author: United Nations Girls' Education Initiative (UNGEI) Nationwide school closures as part of measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19 have disrupted the education of an entire generation of children and youth. Previous health emergencies demonstrate that girls are disproportionately affected, with the effects of gender inequality and unequal power structures exacerbated in times of crisis. This Common Messaging Framework, developed with UNGEI partner and ally organisations, can be used as an advocacy tool to leverage the power of collective action to position gender at the forefront of the COVID-19 response and enhance coherence in advocacy and communications efforts. 
Gender Inequality in Education and its Impact on Economic Growth in Algeria: An Applied Study for the Period (1980-2014) Year of publication: 2017 Author: Latifa Al-Sabti | Taleb Warrad Corporate author: University of Jordan Most of the developing countries suffer from gender inequality in education, health, employment opportunities, wages and opportunities of representation and political empowerment. It was found that this inequality - according to the findings of most previous studies on this topic- had a negative effect on economic growth. As economic growth is one of the important macroeconomic goals, this has induced the researcher to investigate the relationship between them in Algeria. This study aimed mainly at investigating the impact of gender inequality in education on the economic growth in Algeria, using annual data covering the period from 1980 to 2014, in order to achieve this objective, an econometric model has been designed based on the economic theories and the published researches, using data obtained from the World Bank's (WB) and UNESCO websites. The Results of the econometric analysis showed the existence of significant positive relationship between gender inequality in secondary education and economic growth in Algeria (which means that there is a gender equality in secondary education enrollment according to the definition of Gender Parity Index), and the existence of a negative significant relationship between gender inequality in primary education and economic growth in Algeria (which means that there is a gender inequality in primary education enrollment according to the definition of Gender Parity Index), also showed the presence of a positive significant relationship between each of the trade openness, physical capital and economic growth, and the presence of a negative significant relationship between labor supply and economic growth in Algeria. The study recommended the need of Algeria to work on the elimination of the causes of gender inequality in education, or at least minimizing them as much as possible because of their negative impact on economic growth, and supporting the educational system through the construction of new schools in rural and urban areas, the paving of roads to facilitate access of pupils safely to schools, equipping schools with the required means to complete the educational process as it should be, to spread awareness through various media of the importance of female education, to enact legislations that obligate the education of females, to encourage the demand for females in the labor market as an attempt to raise their rate of enrollment to education as a major determinant for getting a good job. 
Educational Contexts, Feminism and Gender identities of Adolescents from a Rural Mayan Town in Yucatan (Iberoamerican Journal of Education; vol. 89, no. 1) Year of publication: 2022 Author: Silvia Montejo Murillo Corporate author: Organization of Ibero-American States for Education, Science and Culture (OEI) The purpose of this article is to compare and explore the gender identity of adolescent women from a rural Mayan locality, from two of their educational contexts: the telesecundaria school and daily life in the community. Interviews and participant observation were used to obtain qualitative primary data. Among the main findings, it stands out that the institutional structure and rigidity of the school limits adolescents from being able to act at certain times from social attributes different from those offered by their locality. Likewise, the school contributed to the individualization of the participants and trained them to have foreign values as a desirable representation of “development”, aspects that do not necessarily contribute to the idea of “community”. 
Generation Equality Accountability Report 2022 Year of publication: 2022 Corporate author: United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women) In the UN Decade for Action on Gender Equality, people around the world have pledged to move from rhetoric to action and to work together to drive lasting change, starting now. Through the 2021 Generation Equality Forum in Mexico and France, world leaders and partners committed to eliminating gender inequalities and to financing and implementing laws, policies, and programmes to meet priority actions and targets in a Global Acceleration Plan for Gender Equality. The aim is simple but profound: deliver irreversible, quantifiable results for women and girls in all their diversity.Together, commitment makers and signatories of a series of Action Coalitions, along with the Compact for Women, Peace and Security and Humanitarian Action have begun to build an ambitious global movement. It unites diverse partners committed to collective accountability for women and girls. This accountability is the driving force of this report, which takes stock of the bold commitments made at the Forum one year into implementation. Through a survey of commitment-makers, the report sheds light on the nature of the commitments and assesses measurable progress. It highlights trends and notes where more work is needed.Generation Equality was born from the idea that the world could make catalytic progress on gender equality if a wide range of stakeholders united around a transformative vision and worked together to achieve it. These preliminary findings demonstrate that, while more remains to be done, collective action is powerful in making commitments real in the lives of women and girls. 
Progress on the Sustainable Development Goals: The Gender Snapshot 2022 Year of publication: 2022 Author: Ginette Azcona | Antra Bhatt | Julia Brauchle | Guillem Fortuny Fillo | Yongyi Min | Heather Page | Yuxi Zhang Corporate author: United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women) | UN. Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN. DESA) The latest available Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 5 data show that the world is not on track to achieve gender equality by 2030. COVID-19 and the backlash against women’s sexual and reproductive health and rights are further diminishing the outlook for gender equality. Violence against women remains high; global health, climate, and humanitarian crises have further increased risks of violence, especially for the most vulnerable women and girls; and women feel more unsafe than they did before the pandemic. Women’s representation in positions of power and decision-making remains below parity. Only 47 per cent of data required to track progress on SDG 5 are currently available, rendering women and girls effectively invisible.Nearly halfway to the 2030 endpoint for the SDGs, the time to act and invest in women and girls is now.“Progress on the Sustainable Development Goals: The gender snapshot 2022” presents the latest evidence on gender equality across all 17 Goals, calling out the long road ahead to achieve gender equality. It emphasizes the interlinkages among the goals, the pivotal force gender equality plays in driving progress across the SDGs, and women and girls’ central role in leading the way forward. 
Progress on the Sustainable Development Goals: The Gender Snapshot 2021 Year of publication: 2021 Author: Ginette Azcona | Antra Bhatt | Julia Brauchle | Guillem Fortuny Fillo | Yongyi Min | Heather Page | Yuxi Zhang Corporate author: United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women) | UN. Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN. DESA) The pandemic has tested and even reversed progress in expanding women’s rights and opportunities. Women have not recovered lost jobs and income, hunger is on the rise, and school closures threaten girls’ educational gains. Women’s participation in government, research, and resource management remains far from equal. Vulnerable groups of women, including migrants, those with disabilities, and those affected by conflict, are frequently left behind. Disparities between rich and poor countries are preventing equal access to lifesaving COVID-19 vaccines and treatments, putting women in poorer countries at disproportionate risk.Moreover, despite women’s central roles in responding to COVID-19, including as front-line health workers, they do not have the leadership positions they deserve. Building forward differently and better will require placing women and girls at the centre of all aspects of response and recovery, including through gender-responsive laws, policies, and budgeting.“Progress on the Sustainable Development Goals: The gender snapshot 2021” presents the latest evidence on gender equality across all 17 Goals, highlighting the progress made since 2015 but also the continued alarm over the COVID-19 pandemic, its immediate effect on women’s well-being, and the threat it poses to future generations. 
Advocacy for Impact: Gender and Education Year of publication: 2022 Author: Justine Brice | Elodie Gnonlonfoun | Marina Gutiérrez García de Viedma | Chattalie Jayatilaka Corporate author: United Nations Girls' Education Initiative (UNGEI) There has been an urgent need to include a gender-inclusive, anti-racist and decolonial lens in advocacy strategies in recent years. In the rare circumstances these lenses were applied, they were not effectively utilised when designing and implementing an advocacy campaign regarding education. Often, an intersectional approach was not used to consider context-specific power dynamics impacting girls’ ability to access education. The first objective of this report is to understand the “best practices to design and implement advocacy strategies that are gender-inclusive and anti-racist in the development sector, with a focus on gender and education”. The second objective was to examine the evidence regarding the effectiveness and impact of different advocacy strategies. Thirdly, the study aimed to understand the “best tools and approaches to measure advocacy impact." This research was conducted by an LSE student research team exploring gender-inclusive and anti-racist advocacy strategies. 
Public Policies on Gender Equality in Latin America and the Caribbean in the 21st Century: New Protagonisms and Old Dilemmas in Times of Uncertainty Year of publication: 2023 Author: Cinthya Fernández Lépiz | Esteban Zolezzi Corporate author: Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO) The III Report of FLACSO on Gender Issues is the result of a collaborative process among the Academic Units of FLACSO. Its chapters aim to identify the main challenges in each country regarding gender equality in the early 21st century and engage them in a dialogue with contributions from the academic community of FLACSO. They seek to provide a general characterization of each country, analyze the main challenges in terms of gender equality, as well as the critical contributions and limitations raised by gender and feminist studies in conjunction with the contributions made by FLACSO.