Conclusions

Who answers to women? The evidence refl ected throughout this Report suggests that despite generous formal guarantees of equality, progress for many women, particularly the poorest and most marginal, has been far too slow. Every time legal systems turn a blind eye to injustices experienced by women, every time public service systems respond to women’s needs only in relation to narrowly defi ned traditional female roles, and every time structures of opportunity in markets favour men’s enterprises or limit women to vulnerable or lowreturn employment, we are faced with an accountability failure that reinforces genderbased inequality.

Sustainable Development Goals:

Gender Equality