Blog series: Beijing +25 and the road ahead for gender parity
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Key Information
Today, women still make up 66% of the world's illiterate adults, 40% of the global labour force and only 6% of international leaders. The year 2020 marks the 25th anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women and the adoption of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action. And while much progress has been made, the promise of the Platform for Action remains unfulfilled. We are also starting to see a backlash that is seeking to reverse these gains and intimidate the women who are driving progress. In the build up to the 64th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW64) in March 2020, this blog series brings together key research and experts from ODI to critically examine global progress and challenges to gender equality since 1995, and to outline realistic goals for accelerating progress over the next 25 years. The blog series is divided into seven parts and each addresses a critical area of concern outlined in the Beijing Platform for Action: the girl child (Nicola Jones)m women and poverty (Carmen Leon-Himmelstine), women in power and decision-making (Rachel George), violence against women (Virginie Le Masson), women in the economy (Sara Pantuliano and Arancha González), education and training of women (Rachel Marcus), women and armed conflict (Karen Barnes Robinson).
Lead Implementing Organization(s)
Location(s)
Global
Government Affiliation
Non-governmental programYears
2019 - 2020
Partner(s)
Not applicable or unknown
Ministry Affiliation
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COVID-19 Response
UnknownGeographic Scope
Global / regionalMeets gender-transformative education criteria from the TES
UnknownAreas of Work Back to Top
Education areas
Other
- Transition from school to work
Other skills
- Rights/empowerment education
Cross-cutting areas
- Early/child marriage
- Emergencies and protracted crises
- Empowerment
Program participants
Other populations reached
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Participants include
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Program Approaches Back to Top
Community engagement/advocacy/sensitization
- Community mobilization
Life skills education
- Gender, rights and power
Policy/legal environment
- Advocating changes to existing laws/policies
School-related gender-based violence
- Anti-violence policies and codes of conduct
Women's empowerment programs
- Advocacy/action
Program Goals Back to Top
Education goals
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Cross-cutting goals
- Changed social norms
- Improved critical consciousness
- Increased advocacy/civic engagement
- Increased agency and empowerment
- More equitable gender attitudes and norms
- Reduced child marriage