Women's Inclusive Leadership & Decision-Making: Bold steps forward
The world is not on track to achieve gender equality by 2030.
Today, I was delighted to join the historic moment of the CEDAW Committee’s half-day general discussion on elaborating a new General Recommendation on the equal and inclusive representation of women in decision-making systems (GR 40).
UN Women’s research tells us that globally, in countries with legislated candidate quotas, women’s representation is five percentage points and seven percentage points higher in parliaments and local government, respectively, compared to countries without such legislation. It is time to “turn the calculus” around and achieve gender parity in decision-making, once and for all.
There is also an opportunity to strengthen the normative framework for ending gender-based violence against women in political life, which globally poses the biggest threat to women’s equal participation and representation in decision-making.
This requires a paradigm shift in how we support women around the world who are a force for equality, peace, and development; bold action of States parties to fulfill their commitments on adopting temporary special measures; ending gender-based violence against women in political and public life; and rising to the challenge of reflecting women’s diversity across all areas of decision-making worldwide.
UN Women is honored to be supporting this process.
Chairwoman of the Students' Union of the Open University
11 个月TOO LITTLE TOO LATE ! SHAME ON YOU UNWOMEN ! AN ANTISEMITISM AND ANTIZIONIC ORGANIZATION! #metoounlessurajew
Chief of Global Diplomatic Campaign/Every Women Treaty/Senior Gender Expert/GovernanceRule of Law&Women Political Leadership/Senior Advisor UN Women/Lawyer Arab French English & North American Laws/CEDAW Shadow Report
1 年Great to join efforts: UN Women and the CEDAW committee. Increasing Women equal political participation could be the one way to increase gender equality commitments and strengthen the legislative framework toward ending violence against women and girls.
Public Policy, Legal and Regulatory Advisory, Gender Mainstreaming at Seodi White Consult
1 年This is true. As well as Countries with a Proportional representational system as opposed to the first-past-the-post system. In the Proportional representation system Nations with a legislated system in which parties are required to put forward candidates in a Zebra way ( Man-woman, or woman-man) ensure equal representation at whatever cut-off point (percentage of representation won) the party secures its representation in Parliament.