Gender Equality & Women Empowerment
Gender Equality & Women Empowerment
Based on our vision of empowering human beings, our first steps begin by supporting teenage mothers reconstruct their lives and empower them to learn life skills and entrepreneurship skills to increase their ability to earn income.
Gracious Foundation pays special attention to the category of adolescents (boys and girls) and provides them with psycho-social support programs and life skills training aimed at empowering them in society.
Young Women are the other group of people we work with and help through safe spaces and centers to reduce the pressures and difficulties imposed by the society based on gender discrimination
Facts & Figures
- With only seven years remaining, a mere 15.4 per cent of Goal 5 indicators with data are “on track”, 61.5 per cent are at a moderate distance and 23.1 per cent are far or very far off track from 2030 targets.
- In many areas, progress has been too slow. At the current rate, it will take an estimated 300 years to end child marriage, 286 years to close gaps in legal protection and remove discriminatory laws, 140 years for women to be represented equally in positions of power and leadership in the workplace, and 47 years to achieve equal representation in national parliaments.
- Political leadership, investments and comprehensive policy reforms are needed to dismantle systemic barriers to achieving Goal 5. Gender equality is a cross-cutting objective and must be a key focus of national policies, budgets and institutions.
- Around 2.4 billion women of working age are not afforded equal economic opportunity.
- 178 countries maintain legal barriers that prevent women’s full economic participation.
- In 2019, one in five women, aged 20-24 years, were married before the age of 18.