Culture and Women's Health

Prism Series on the Health of Women Globally

Culture, Beliefs and Women’s Health

 

Supporting Information

 

Introduction 

 

Sustainable Development Goal 5 is to 

 

“Achieve Gender Equality and empower all women and girls”

 

The health of women across the globe will not be fully achieved without achieving this goal. 

 

The United Nations website provide a great deal of information about the goal and you can find an overview of it if you follow this link and much more detail about the topic if you follow this link

 

What follows here are examples of gender inequalities and more information can be found at “Our World in Data”.

 

There are links to further reading at the bottom of this page. 

 

 

Childhood 

 

 

 

 

 

Education 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Adulthood and Marriage 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Civil Rights

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Further Reading 

 

• Sustainable Development Goal 5 : Gender Equality

 

• Achieve Gender Equality and Empower Women and Girls (Article from Our World in Data about achieving the SDG 5) 

 

• Sexual Violence: a Tool of War (by the UN)

 

• Rape as a tactic of war and the role of UNIFEM

 

• Dramatic rise in women and girls being cut (UNICEF reported in Guardian) 

 

• Patriarchy is not inevitable (Guardian)