Beyond Equality: Harnessing the Power of Girls and Women for Sustainable Development
As we look toward 2030, how do we move beyond talking about equality to making shared global prosperity a reality? It is proven that empowering women and promoting gender equity is crucial to accelerating global sustainable development, yet female voices continue to be excluded from critical conversations about political and economic system changes. For example, six out of ten of the world’s poorest people are women, largely due to the ongoing discrimination they face in the economic sphere. Additionally, with only 22 percent of the world’s parliamentarians being women, laws combating gender-based violence are not passed or enforced to the extent required to protect all women. In response, the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) focus on overcoming these obstacles and others in the way of achieving full gender equality worldwide—addressing women’s limited access to employment opportunities, the absence of peace and security for all women, and the lack of effective cross-sector partnerships needed to confront global poverty.
In this session, CGI members will be challenged to think critically about not just the success of SDG 5, but how girls and women can be integrated into the achievement of all of the SDGs to ensure sustainable development.
REMARKS:
Chelsea Clinton, Vice Chair, Clinton Foundation
Madeleine K. Albright, Chair, Albright Stonebridge Group
PARTICIPANTS:
Bob Collymore, Chief Executive Officer, Safaricom Limited
David Nabarro, Special Adviser of the Secretary-General on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and Climate Change, United Nations
Carolyn Tastad, Group President, North America, Procter & Gamble
Jane Wurwand, Founder and Chief Visionary, Dermalogica
