{"id":8472,"date":"2020-03-06T09:03:04","date_gmt":"2020-03-06T06:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=8472"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:54","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:54","slug":"equality-for-2-1-bln-women-and-girls-under-threat-as-progress-stalls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2020\/03\/06\/equality-for-2-1-bln-women-and-girls-under-threat-as-progress-stalls\/","title":{"rendered":"Equality for 2.1 Bln Women and Girls Under Threat As Progress Stalls"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> <strong>By Matthew Lavietes <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More than 2 billion women and girls around the world face missing out on the advantages of their male peers as progress towards global gender equality goals stalls, advocacy groups warned on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>About half the countries that signed up to the U.N. target of achieving gender equality by 2030 &#8211; home to 2.1 billion women and girls &#8211; are on course to fail on all five measures,\u00a0research by the Equal Measures 2030 partnership\u00a0of advocacy groups found.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The takeaway from this report is clear: At the current pace of progress, none of us will live to see a world where men and women are truly equal,&#8221; said Mark Suzman, CEO of the Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation, one of the group&#8217;s partners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The data that Equal Measures has collected and crunched should give all of us a new sense of urgency. We all must do more to take up the cause of gender equality.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>World leaders agreed in September 2015 on 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), designed to tackle the world&#8217;s most vexing problems including extreme poverty and inequality. <a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202003060004.html\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><ins><br> <\/ins><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Matthew Lavietes More than 2 billion women and girls around the world face missing out on the advantages of their male peers as progress towards global gender equality goals&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}