Gender and Development

In July 2010, the United Nations General Assembly created UN Women, the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and
the Empowerment of Women. It focuses on several priority areas including:

(i)increasing women’s leadership and participation;
(ii) ending violence against women;
(iii) enhancing women’s economic empowerment; and
(iv) making gender equality central to national development and planning and budgeting.

You have been asked as a gender advisor to brief UN Women by producing an essay on ONE of these priority areas above.

The objective is
(a) to persuade policy makers to understand the processes that lead to gender inequalities in one of these
areas;
(b) Devise 5 strategies that policy makers would need to consider implementing to tackle gender inequality in
this area.