World's Women 2020

What is the state of gender equality in the world? What do data tell us about progress towards the commitments made in the Beijing Platform for Action, which, 25 years after its adoption, remains the most comprehensive road map for advancing women's rights worldwide. Importantly, in adopting the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in 2015, Member States reaffirmed, in Sustainable Development Goal 5, that gender equality is central to the achievement of sustainable development for all by 2030. As has been done at five-year intervals since the adoption of the Beijing Platform for Action, The World’s Women 2020 takes stock of progress in advancing women’s rights, empowering women and girls and ensuring gender equality in the world community. The World’s Women 2020 is a collection of 100 stories providing up-to-date assessments of progress towards gender equality in the following six critical areas, including, under each area, the impact of COVID-19 on women: (a) population and families; (b) health; (c) education; (d) economic empowerment and asset ownership; (e) power and decision-making; and (f) violence against women and the girl child. Highlighted Stories Explore highlighted stories below or click button to view all stories View All Stories World's Women in Numbers Acknowledgements Thematic Areas Select to explore thematic area pages COVID-19 While deaths from communicable diseases are usually higher in developing countries, this situation changed drastically over the course of 2020 due to the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic, a highly communicable disease that has affected developing and developed countries alike. As of October 2020, more than 35 million confirmed cases and more than 1 million deaths have been reported worldwide. View Explore Stories by Region Select region on the map to explore stories by region Select region on the map to explore stories by region Explore Datasets Select icon to explore all data sets by thematic area Population and Families Health Education Economic Empowerment Power and Decision Making Violence Against Women & the Girl Child

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