: Melinda Gates interview: Empowerment is jargon. Discourse must shift towards giving women full power #IndiaNEWS The world will not reach the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal 5–global

Melinda Gates interview: Empowerment is jargon. Discourse must shift towards giving women full power #IndiaNEWS
The world will not reach the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal 5–global gender equality–until at least 2108, against the target year of 2030, per the Goalkeepers Report, 2022, released on September 12 by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.One explanation is that the global economic shock wrought by the Covid-19 pandemic disproportionately affected women’s livelihoods, said the report, which noted a 25% gender gap in labour force participation rates globally in 2022, in favour of men. The pandemic shock alone, however, is not enough to explain growing gender inequality, Melinda French Gates, co-chair of the Gates Foundation, told us in an interview. Covid-19 has only exacerbated and highlighted existing inequities, said Gates, a philanthropist, businesswoman, computer scientist, economist, published author and global gender equality advocate. The pre-existing root causes of gender inequality, a key one being economic inequality, will have to be addressed in order to meet the global gender equity goal, she said. Edited excerpts:No country has achieved gender equality yet!Advancing womens empowerment is critical to achieving all of the #GlobalGoals .cc: @GlobalGoalsUN pic.twitter.com/BazdeTgZo1— UN Women (@UN_Women) August 26, 2021 What the data show in your report is not very encouraging. Is that frustrating for someone who comes from a business background and is used to seeing growth happening at a certain rate, given your investments over...Read more

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