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Gender Equality: Access and Opportunities

Gender equality refers to equal rights, responsibilities, and opportunities for both men and women regardless of gender. It does not mean that men and women have to be the same, but that their access to resources and opportunities should not depend on whether they are male or female. Achieving gender equality requires eliminating harmful practices against women and girls globally and ensuring equal treatment or equivalent treatment that considers different needs and roles of both genders.

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Gender Equality: Access and Opportunities

Gender equality refers to equal rights, responsibilities, and opportunities for both men and women regardless of gender. It does not mean that men and women have to be the same, but that their access to resources and opportunities should not depend on whether they are male or female. Achieving gender equality requires eliminating harmful practices against women and girls globally and ensuring equal treatment or equivalent treatment that considers different needs and roles of both genders.

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GENDER

EQUALITY
Gender equality, also known as sexual
equality, is the state of equal ease of
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.
It does not mean that women and men have
to become the same, but that their rights,
responsibilities and opportunities will not
depend on whether they are born male or
female. Gender equity means fairness of
treatment for women and men, according
to their respective needs. This may include
equal treatment or treatment that is
different but which is considered
equivalent in terms of rights, benefits,
obligations and opportunities.
Gender equality, equality between men
and women, entails the concept that
all human beings, both men and
women, are free to develop their
personal abilities and make choices
without the limitations set by
stereotypes, rigid gender roles and
prejudices. Gender equality means
that the different behavior, aspirations
and needs of women and men are
considered, valued and favored
Gender equality is the goal, while
gender neutrality and gender equity
are practices and ways of thinking
that help in achieving the goal. Gender
parity, which is used to measure
gender balance in a given situation,
can aid in achieving gender equality
but is not the goal in and of itself.
Gender equality is more than equal
representation, it is strongly tied to 
women's rights, and often requires
policy changes. As of 2017, the global
movement for gender equality has not
incorporated the proposition of 
genders besides women and men, or 
gender identities outside of the 
gender binary.
UNICEF says gender equality "means
that women and men, and girls and
boys, enjoy the same rights,
resources, opportunities and
protections. It does not require that
girls and boys, or women and men,
be the same, or that they be treated
exactly alike.
On a global scale, achieving gender equality also
requires eliminating harmful practices against
women and girls, including sex trafficking, 
feticide, wartime sexual violence, and other 
oppression tactics. UNFPA stated that, "despite
many international agreements affirming their
human rights, women are still much more likely
than men to be poor and illiterate. They have less
access to property ownership, credit, training
and employment. They are far less likely than
men to be politically active and far more likely to
be victims of domestic violence.
THANK YOU!

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