Driving Force:

Description:

As many as 375 million workers, roughly 14 percent of the global workforce, may need to keep up with skills like digitization, automation and artificial intelligence in order to keep relevant for the jobs of the future. Growing automation adoption adds to the challenges that women face in the workplace. MGI research found that the share of women whose jobs are replaced by machines and will likely need to make job transitions due to automation is roughly the same as for men: up to one in four over the next decade may have to shift to a different occupation. Between 40 million and 160 million women globally may need to transition between occupations by 2030, often into higher-skill roles.From a societal perspective, inequality due to loss of jobs and a lack of re-skilling opportunities could have a significant impact on investors. This could result in falling consumption as a result of lack of jobs, declines in net worth, and the ability to access capital, all of which inhibit a country’s gross domestic product (GDP).

Enablers:

International community / United Nations: defining policies that brings the international community together and align the objectives and goals towards the subject Access to information/use of technology: more people (women and men) have access to information, including the consequences of more women in the workplace and as leaders, and how they benefit from it in the personal (higher income per family) and business sides (more revenues and profitability in company with more women in leadership positions)

Inhibitors:

Climate change, pandemics, disasters, conflicts, and migration are the main barriers to empowering women and achieving 2030’s goals.

Paradigms:

Women earn only 77 cents for each dollar earned by men. 2 of 3 developing countries have achieved gender parity in primary education. Almost a 750million women and girls alive today married before completing 18 years old.

Experts:

Marta Vieira da Silva – world-renowned Brazilian soccer player - UN Women Goodwill Ambassador https://www.unwomen.org/en/partnerships/goodwill-ambassadors/marta-vieira-da-silva

Jaha Dukureh – activist - UN Women Ambassador for Africa https://www.safehandsforgirls.org/

Timing:

2030 is the deadline to achieve the SDG goals that are comprised of: - End discrimination against women/girls - Eliminate all forms of violence against all women and girls - Eliminate all harmful practices (as forced marriage and mutilation) - Recognize and value unpaid care and domestic work - Ensure equal opportunities in decision-making in all levels of political, economic, and public life - Ensure health care access (especially sexual, reproductive health, and reproductive rights) - Promote equal rights to access financial services, inheritance, property rights, and natural resources - Promote the use of technology universally - “Adopt and strengthen sound policies and enforceable legislation for the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls at all levels”

Web Resources:

https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/gender-equality/ https://www.unwomen.org/en/news/in-focus/women-and-the-sdgs/sdg-5-gender-equality