Transitioning to Gender Equality

Transitioning to Gender Equality

Summary

Gender Equality, the fifth UN Sustainable Development Goal (SDG 5), aims for the elimination of all forms of discrimination against women and girls. It thereby addresses all forms of violence, unpaid and unacknowledged care and domestic work, as well as the need for equal opportunities for leadership at all levels of decision-making in political, economic, and public life.

In this volume, we focus on three main areas of inquiry, ‘Sexuality’, ‘Politics of Difference’, and ‘Care, Work and Family’, and raise the following transversal questions:

• How can gender be addressed from an intersectional perspective, linking gender to further categories of difference, which are involved in discrimination?
• In which ways are binary notions of gender taking part in inequality regimes and by which means can these binaries be questioned?
• How can we measure, control, and portray progress with regard to gender equality and how do we, in doing so, define gender?
• Which multi-, inter-, or transdisciplinary perspectives are needed for understanding the diversity of gender, in order to support a transition to ‘gender equality’?

Transitioning to Gender Equality is part of MDPI’s Open Access book series, Transitioning to Sustainability, which aims to add to the conversation about regional and global sustainable development according to the 17 SDGs.

Keywords

• SDGs
• gender equality
• sexuality
• care
• politics of difference
• work
• family
• discrimination