Women’s Movements and Gender Equality

Gender equality means equal access to resources and opportunities regardless of gender, including economic participation and decision-making; and the state of valuing different behaviors, aspirations and needs equally, regardless of gender. Achieving gender equality also requires eliminating harmful practices against women and girls, including sex trafficking, wartime sexual violence, gender wage gap, and other oppression tactics. It is not only a fundamental human right, but a necessary foundation for a peaceful, prosperous and sustainable world, as stated in the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals.

But what is the difference between gender equality, gender equity and gender neutrality? Why are these movements still important in today’s societies?

Special guest: Andrea Peto

Recommended readings:

• Gender equality now: 7 injustices we need to address to change the world
• Women and Girls – Closing the Gender Gap

This event will be recorded

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Image source: Flickr / C.C. Chapman (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

This salon is part of the Ideas Shape the World – An Introduction to Social Movements series.

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