The importance of women in development. Analysis of Sustainable Development Goals with a gend

Abstract

Women’s participation in the various economic, political, social and environmental sectors is the key to achieving the sustainable human development that we so long for. Its strength, intelligence, ability to manage resources, as well as its capacity to care for others and the environment around it make it the engine of sustainable human development. However, one of the obstacles that millions of women around the world face is the poor recognition of their rights in all areas, making it susceptible to situations of discrimination, violence and social exclusion. While there has been a major advance in gender mainstreaming in international agendas over the past 40 years, there are still significant challenges around their equal and full participation in international society. Therefore, this work aims to analyze the historical events that have enabled the recognition of women’s rights after different approaches or methodologies, as well as to determine the possible mainstreaming of the gender perspective in the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), highlighting the importance of women’s participation in each of these objectives. All this based on an existing quantitative analysis methodology of literature review on this subject and quantitative on the review of indicators contained in the UN WOMEN document “Making Promises Reality: Gender Equality on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”, published in 2018.