Progress on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): The gender snapshot 2019

WORLD: UN WOMEN-REPORT

2019

UN Women and the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs have released “Progress on the Sustainable Development Goals: The gender snapshot 2019”. This publication brings together the latest available evidence on gender equality across all 17 Goals, underscoring the progress made as well as the action still needed to accelerate progress.
"Gender equality is a prominent and cross-cutting feature of the 2030 Agenda, one that is key to realizing women’s and girls’ human rights and catalysing progress across all the SDGs. In the SDG indicator framework, a total of 53 indicators are gender-specific. This means that they are either targeted at women and girls under SDG 5, explicitly call for disaggregation by sex, or refer to gender equality as the underlying objective. Lack of gender data, however, and the absence of gender-specific indicators across all goals, make it difficult to establish gender equality baselines. Trend data, which are essential for assessing the direction and pace of progress, are also lacking. Without timely and reliable information about gender equality and the status of women, it is impossible to know whether measures taken to address gender inequality have the desired effect and whether women and girls are benefiting from the broader measures taken to address the economic, social and environmental targets set out in the 2030 Agenda. Commitments at the highest political level are needed for a follow-up and review process that is evidence-based, open, inclusive, transparent and gender sensitive. This includes greater efforts made to map existing data sources, develop inventories of sex-disaggregated statistics and gender-specific indicators, and utilize existing data to analyse the SDGs from a gender perspective. Investing in national statistical capacity, particularly in developing countries, is also central to the monitoring of gender equality and the SDGs."
Direct to the report (unwomen.org)