UN reveals 'Gender disparity has not changed for a decade'

According to statistics from the UN published on 12^th June, gender inequality has been stable for a decade. Cultural prejudices and pressures continue to limit women's empowerment, making it unlikely that the globe will achieve gender parity by the UN's target date of 2030.

Progress on inequality has halted despite a rise in women's rights organisations and social movements like Time's Up and MeToo in the United States. These issues are due to biased societal norms, a larger human-development problem, and COVID-19, which caused many women to lose their jobs.

The United Nations Development Programme used information from the global research project World Values Survey (WVS) to track the issue in its most recent report through its Gender Social Norms Index.

According to the survey, approximately nine out of ten men and women have basic prejudices against women, and the percentage of persons who have at least one bias has remained essentially unchanged over the past ten years. The percentage of persons with at least one prejudice reduced to 84.6% in 38 nations, although the progress has been "disappointing" in scope.

Survey says, over half of the world's population believes that males make superior corporate executives and political leaders. The ultimate objective is to alter societal norms, gender prejudices, and the power dynamics between men and women. Education is essential for enhancing women's economic achievements, yet even in nations where women have higher levels of education, there remains a 39% income disparity on average.

greater individuals than one in four believe it is acceptable for a man to abuse his wife, which causes greater immediate harm to women's wellbeing, according to the UNDP.