During a roundtable held by the Women and Gender Equality Commission on Tuesday in the lead-up to International Women’s Day, attendees were reminded that the fight for gender parity is not one for women only, but for men as well, and that education of both genders is the key to eliminating the gap.
For International Women’s Day this year, held under the theme ‘Women in the Changing World of Work: Planet 50-50 by 2030,’ women are being charged to ‘Be Bold for Change.’ According to the World Economic Forum’s Gender Gap Report, which quantifies and analyses gaps between men and women in the areas of health, education, economy and politics and tracks its changes over time, the gender gap will not likely close until 2186.
However, Guyana, along with the rest of the world, is pushing the agenda to close the gender gap by 2030, in an attempt to realize the fifth Sustainable Development Goal which aims to “achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls.”
