性别不平等使处在各种发展水平的社会都深受其害。太多妇女在生活或工作中遭受暴力、不公正和成见,从而削弱了整个社会,还使社会在创造性、力量和对未来的信心方面丧失巨大潜力。联合国通过了雄心勃勃的 2030年可持续发展议程,而全面提高女童和妇女的能力则是人类发展最强有力的杠杆之一。让我们将它的作用充分发挥出来。
It is a matter of principle, and a matter of common sense: everybody has a stake in promoting equality between men and women, at all levels of society: in farmland and on the benches of parliamentary assemblies, in company boardrooms and in the streets of our cities. Rural women are directly responsible for the production of half the world’s food – and it is primarily women who manage and gather natural resources. Ninety per cent of rapes in the world take place precisely when women are on their way to collect water or firewood. Two thirds of illiterate adults in the world are women. One in three women is subject to physical violence in the private sphere, and the wage gap between men and women, for equal work and with equal skills, is a fact across the world.
这是一个原则问题,也是一个常识问题:在社会各个层面促进性别平等可使所有人从中获益,无论是在农田还是在议会,在企业管理层还是在城市的街头。农村妇女直接负责全世界一半的粮食生产,她们是首先管理和采集自然资源的人。全世界90%的强奸案恰恰发生在妇女打水或拾柴的路途中。全世界有三分之二的成年文盲是女性。每三名妇女中便有一名在生活中遭受身体暴力。同等能力和职位的男女工资差距在世界各地普遍存在。
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