Global Civil Society & the UN Sustainable Development Goals

Goal 5: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls

Gender Equality


Gender equality is not only a fundamental human right, but a necessary foundation for a peaceful, prosperous and sustainable world. There has been progress over the last decades, but the world is not on track to achieve gender equality by 2030.

Women and girls represent half of the world’s population and therefore also half of its potential. But gender inequality persists everywhere and stagnates social progress.
On average, women in the labor market still earn 23 percent less than men globally and women spend about three times as many hours in unpaid domestic and care work as men.

Sexual violence and exploitation, the unequal division of unpaid care and domestic work, and discrimination in public office, all remain huge barriers. All these areas of inequality have been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic: there has been a surge in reports of sexual violence, women have taken on more care work due to school closures, and 70% of health and social workers globally are women.

At the current rate, it will take an estimated 300 years to end child marriage, 286 years to close gaps in legal protection and remove discriminatory laws, 140 years for women to be represented equally in positions of power and leadership in the workplace, and 47 years to achieve equal representation in national parliaments.

Political leadership, investments and comprehensive policy reforms are needed to dismantle systemic barriers to achieving Goal 5 Gender equality is a cross-cutting objective and must be a key focus of national policies, budgets and institutions.

Name Acronym Founded City HQ Country/Territory HQ Type I Type II

Earth5R

2014 Mumbai India F

EarthAction

EA 1992 Amherst MA USA F y

East Africa Women's League

EAWL 1917 Nairobi Kenya G

East African Centre for Human Rights

EACHRights 2010 Nairobi Kenya G

East African Court of Justice

Arusha Tanzania UR K g

East and Horn of Africa Human Rights Defenders Network

EHAHRD-Net 2005 Kampala Uganda F

East Timor and Indonesia Action Network

ETAN 1991 New York NY USA G

Eastern Africa Coalition on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

EACOR Nairobi Kenya G

Eastern Africa National Networks of AIDS and Health Service Organizations

EANNASO 2002 Arusha Tanzania UR F

Eastern African Support Unit for NGOs

EASUN 1993 Arusha Tanzania UR G

Eastern Caribbean Alliance for Diversity and Equality

ECADE 2015 Castries St Lucia D

Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court

ECSC 1967 Castries St Lucia F g

Eastern European Risk and Insurance Association

EERIA 2021 G

Eastern Mediterranean Association for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Professions

EMACAPAP 2000 Beirut Lebanon D

ECHELON Watch

G

Echoes of Women in Africa

ECOWA 2010 Benin City Nigeria G

ECLOF International

1946 Geneva Switzerland F f

École Universitaire Internationale

EUI 2012 Rome Italy G

Economic Freedom Network Asia

EFN Asia 1998 Bangkok Thailand E

Economic Justice Network for Churches in Eastern and Southern Africa

EJN 1997 Cape Town South Africa F

Economy for the Common Good

ECG Hamburg Germany C

Ecotechnie

Chesapeake VA USA F

Ecumenical Forum of European Christian Women

EFECW 1982 Vienna Austria F

Ecumenical Group of Women

KAIRE 1971 F

Ecumenical Program on Central America and the Caribbean

EPICA 1968 Washington DC USA G

Ecumenical Women's Initiative

EWI 2007 Omis Croatia E

EDANA, the voice of nonwovens

EDANA 1971 Brussels Belgium D t

Edmund Rice International

ERI Geneva Switzerland E

Eduardo Frei Foundation

1990 The Hague Netherlands G f

Education Development Center

EDC 1958 Waltham MA USA G

Education International

EI 1993 Brussels Belgium B

Educational Foundation for African Women

EFAW 2009 Enugu Nigeria G f

EDUCO

2013 Barcelona Spain G

EFTA Court

1994 Luxembourg Luxembourg F g

Egalité

1993 Brussels Belgium E

Egalité Laïcité Europe

ÉGALE 2004 Paris France G

Egyptian Organization for Human Rights

EOHR 1985 Cairo Egypt G

EIB Institute

2012 Luxembourg Luxembourg E gj

EIT Food

Heverlee Belgium F

EIT Health

2015 Munich Germany F

EIT InnoEnergy

Eindhoven Netherlands F

EIT Urban Mobility

EIT UM 2019 Barcelona Spain F

Electronics Watch

2015 Amsterdam Netherlands F

Eliminating Child Labour in Tobacco Foundation

ECLT Foundation 2002 Geneva Switzerland F fy

Emerge Poverty Free

1995 London UK G

Emmaüs Europe

2005 Montreuil France E

Emmaus International

1971 Montreuil France E

emp'ACT

1983 Geneva Switzerland G

Empower International Ministries

Tustin CA USA G

Empower Women

2013 New York NY USA F

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