Gender Equality

В издании Женщины мира в 2010 году: тенденции и статистика статистические данные и анализ представлены в доступной форме и изложены понятным для неспециалиста языком.

In recent years political momentum has grown across the Pacific with leaders increasingly recognizing digital transformation as an important driver of economic resilience and global integration.

This paper is being released in the midst of the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic. In addition to being a health crisis unlike any other in recent history the pandemic is an economic and social crisis. Families—and women within them—are juggling an increase in unpaid care work as well as losses in income and paid work. Lone mothers in particular are acutely vulnerable unable to share the care burden and more likely to work for low pay and in vulnerable occupations. The restrictions put in place to combat COVID-19 also leave women and their families in precarious positions. Understanding the extent to which women’s participation in the labour market is linked to family structures is even more crucial in these uncertain times. This publication drawing on a global dataset and new indicators developed by UN Women and the International Labour Organization shows that women’s employment is shaped by domestic and caregiving responsibilities in ways that men’s is not. The data collected pre-COVID-19 provide insights into the distribution of domestic and caregiving responsibilities within various types of households—insights that are critical at this juncture when policies and programmes are being designed to respond to the pandemic’s economic fallout.

Despite significant recent improvements in measuring resilience there are still relevant gaps in the analysis. One of the relatively unexplored aspects of resilience is whether a genderspecific analysis of resilience capacity can become relevant for policy use. This paper contributes to the literature on resilience by analysing a data set with one of the most adopted resilience indicators and highlighting the emerging gaps. There are many reasons why policy makers should be targeting women with their resilience-enhancing activities’. The descriptive analysis at the individual level indicates that women — and in particular older widowed women — tend to be more likely to live in consumption-poor households. Households with widowed female heads are more likely to experience food insecurity. Finally widowed and younger female heads of household as compared to other female heads were more likely to suffer persistent shocks and consequent losses. A practical application to the Uganda case study also reveals that women’s education appears to play a larger role in mitigating persistent exposure to and losses from shocks compared to men’s education. All these reasons suggest that policy makers’ attention should be focused on women. This ultimately translates into the need for better and more gender-specific resilience analysis. In order to move ahead with this it is necessary to employ better-specified data collection and analysis tools and approaches.

COVID-19 (coronavirus) has been declared a public health emergency of international concern and a global pandemic by the World Health Organization. This global threat to health security underscores the urgent need to accelerate progress on achieving Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 3 and the need to massively scale up international cooperation to deliver on SDG 3. It also reveals what is less obvious but no less urgent: how health emergencies such as COVID-19 and the response to them can exacerbate gender inequality and derail hard-won progress not only on SDG 3 but on all the SDGs. This paper presents the latest evidence on the gendered impact of the pandemic highlights potential and emerging trends and reflects on the long-term impact of the crisis on the achievement of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The paper begins by presenting key facts and figures relating to the gendered impacts of COVID-19 followed by reflecting on the health impacts of COVID-19 on SDG 3 targets. Then the paper explores the socioeconomic and political implications of COVID-19 on women and gender across five of the Goals: SDG 1 (poverty) 4 (quality education) 5 (gender equality) 8 (decent work and economic growth) and 10 (reduced inequalities). The paper concludes by outlining policy priorities drawn from the evidence presented.