International Women’s Day 2018: #PressforProgress

Equality between men and women was embedded in the 1957 Treaty of Rome establishing the European Economic Community, the forerunner to the European Union.

But, as successful as the #MeToo and #TimesUp movements have been in raising public awareness, the struggle for parity is far from over.

The marches took place in several areas of the Gaza Strip and eventually met in front of the United Nations office.

People are “wildly over-optimistic” about how quickly the gender pay gap will be closed, a survey to mark International Women Day has signalled.

The gender disparity is starkly revealed when comparing a man and a woman at the upper-most end of the confidence scale: your chances of promotion rise from 8 per cent to 14% if you’re a highly confident man, but remain at around 7 to 8 per cent if you’re a highly confident woman. The day was renamed International Women’s Day, and was observed in Europe and the US.

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The Swiss labour market is the most discriminatory in Europe in terms of gender equality, according to British magazine The Economistexternal link. Internationally, the Commission supports projects fostering the rights of women who experienced gender-based violence, including sexual violence, in developing countries and in humanitarian crises.

It’s time that women and men support one another and join the continued pursuit of a world where both women and men are considered on an equal playing field. Similarly, Costa Rica’s Banco Nacional has promoted dozens of women into managerial roles; the bank is now a leading regional provider of financing to female entrepreneurs. The graphic below shows the professions most strongly dominated by one gender.

All this apart, women will need to stand by #pressforprogress to close down on gender inequality at the earliest and not let obstacles dampen their career prospects.

Gender equality is an essential precondition for equitable and inclusive sustainable development, which will not take place if half of the world’s population is left behind. “The bright side is that 44% men confirm that they can be effective advocates for gender initiative programs at workplace”.

Salome Zurabishvili, CiDA representative, Managing Head of the Global Compact Network Georgia, also participated at the event. From Latin America to Europe to Asia, on social media, film sets, the factory floor and in the streets, women are calling for lasting change and zero tolerance for sexual assault, harassment and discrimination of all kinds.Achieving gender equality and empowering women and girls is the unfinished business of our time, and the world’s greatest human rights challenge.

“We must work together to tackle cultural obstacles and defeat harmful stereotypes, especially those that affect girls”, says Riseboro.

The report said, “The existing data point to a global digital gender divide”.

Everyone in the world puts their trousers on one leg at a time, we eat, breathe and do what we can to make a life for ourselves and those around us.

Executive Director of Nursing with South Tyneside NHS Foundation Trust and City Hospitals Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust, Melanie is leading the way in care.