Education and Gender Equality Anu Mundkur, Associate Director, Gender Consortium, Flinders University

Sustainable Development Goal 4 (SDG 4) ▪Education a key component to achieving equitable development for all

Timeline to SDG 4 ▪1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights ▪1979 CEDAW Article 10 ▪1990 World Declaration on Education for All ▪1992 Conference on Environment and Development ▪1995 Beijing Platform for Action

Timeline to SDG 4 ▪2000 ▪Dakar Framework of Action, Education for All: Meeting our Global Commitments ▪Millennium Development Goals ▪2005 United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) ▪Shaping the Future We Want (2014) ▪Global Action Programme (GAP) on ESD (2014)

Timeline to SDG 4 ▪2012 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) ▪Higher Education Sustainability Initiative (HESI) ▪Future We Want ▪2015 ▪Muscat Agreement ▪Incheon Declaration ▪SDG 4

Work on SDG 4 ▪Broader focus of the SDG 4 promises to bring in more actors so we have a more holistic approach to education’s contribution to sustainable development ▪SDGs apply to all countries irrespective of their development status ▪Continuing work on SDG 4 related to development of indicators to measure progress ▪

CSW 60 th Session and SDG 4 ▪Reaffirm the importance of the right to education ▪Realising significance of lifelong learning opportunities and equal access to quality education at all levels – early childhood, primary, secondary and tertiary education, as well as technical and vocational training. ▪Importance given to promoting financial literacy, ensuring that women and girls have equal access to career development, training, scholarships and fellowships, and by adopting positive action to build women’s and girls’ leadership skills

Why link SDG 4 to other goals ▪Women's total years of education is now 91 percent of men's. ▪In more than half the world's countries, female education rates are now similar -- or greater -- than men BUT ▪Women’s employment rate is are 30 percent lower than men's ▪Women face rising job segregation. ▪Share of women employed in the relatively high-paying industrial sector compared to men, has dropped 20 percentage points since ▪Political representation of women - abysmally under represented at 25 percent. Source: Stephanie Seguino (2016) Global Trends in Gender Equality, Journal of African Development, 18:1–30

Linking SDG 4 to other goals ▪Goal 1 No poverty; ▪Goal 5 Gender equality; ▪Goal 8 Decent work and economic growth; ▪Goal 9 Industry innovation and infrastructure; and ▪Goal 10 Reduce inequalities