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EUROPE & CENTRAL ASIA -
POST-2015 DEVELOPMENT AGENDA - MORE INCLUSIVE, SUSTAINABLE &
PROSPEROUS SOCIETIES - UN - GENDER
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Note UN Women as one sponsor of
Report.
Gender Excerpts:
Gender Equality: Despite generally high education levels, many countries of the region face severe problems with respect to women’s labour market participation. Women still earn, on average, 20 per cent less than men in the European Union, and up to 50 per cent less in the Caucasus and Central Asia. Rural women are particularly vulnerable due to failing infrastructure, lack of basic services and unequal access to land, property and assets. Violence against women and girls remains pervasive, despite progress on legislation against such violence. Women also continue to be very underrepresented in both political and economic decision-making positions. For instance, the share of women in national parliaments remains below 20 per cent in many countries of the region........
Ageing societies must pay special attention to provision of care for the elderly. This has important gender dimensions as the care burden falls largely on women.........
In some Eastern European countries,
policies to increase fertility risk infringing on the rights of women to make
their own choices, thus undermining gender equality. Given the increasing
evidence that in the European context, gender equality contributes to higher fertility, such policies are likely to fail.
