Promoting Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment for Sustainable Development in Africa
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Promoting gender equality is an essential
component of the development strategy that seeks to
enable people, both men and women, to reduce their
poverty level and bring about improvement in the
standard of living. An important element of sustainable
development is to manage the natural resource base on
which human activity depends. However, sociallyconstructed
roles of men and women (which clearly
manifest in lifestyles, consumption patterns, access to
resources and power, decision-making and
environmental effects) and deprivation of women due to
discrimination, gender-segregated employment and
traditional attitudes constitute source of concern in
sustainable development initiatives. The study adopted
the review of secondary data and information in
exploring gender issues within and across the facets of
sustainable development. Investing in girls and women
(in all its ramifications), supporting their specific needs
as entrepreneurs, workers, home-based consumers,
producers, drivers of low-emission climate-resilient
economies, and instituting sustainable development
framework that confronts the discriminatory social
norms and practices will promote gender equality and
achieve development that is more sustainable. The study
contributes to knowledge in the fields of gender studies,
environment, and sustainable development where
furtherance of gender-responsive policy focus, planning
and implementation is the major thrust.
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TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)