Natalie is a 16-year-old girl. And she never gets to play sports. Because in her community, only boys are allowed to play sports. Millions of girls every day face problems like this, and only because of their gender. Do you think that's right? 

Natalie's Story

Natalie grew up in Chad, Africa. With her mom, dad, and sister Thalia. Thalia and Natalie are discriminated against because of their gender, and millions of other women are too. 

We can change the world

If we achieve Gender Equality, millions of women around the globe, including Natalie, will secure jobs, earn higher wages, and hold more senior positions. It will also ensure that women will have access to all rights.

Why Gender Equality is important  

The most important Sustainable Development Goal for people to achieve first is Goal 5, Gender Equality. Women can be discriminated against because of their gender. Some examples of this are, they can be paid less, they can be treated differently in school, and girls are easy targets for attacks. Evidence from the UNCEIF SNG is that “Gender-based violence, female genital mutilation, child marriage, an education denied ─ gender inequality takes many harmful forms.” This can result in women not being able to get good jobs, which can lead to poverty. “On average, women in the labor market still occupy only 30 per cent of managerial positions  globally, and women spend about two and a half times as many hours in unpaid domestic and care work as men.” This evidence is also from the UN SDH Flipbook. The effect of these problems can lead to trauma, poverty, or worse. This is why Goal 5, Gender Equality, is the most important goal to achieve first.

This project has helped me understand the importance of standing up for what I believe. I learned that so many people in the world don’t have access to everything I have, and to make sure everyone does, we need to work together.  - Zelda

This project helped me understand how important it is for everyone on the planet to help solve the world's main problem (Gender Inequality). The thing I learned is that not every girl/woman in the world has the same rights that men/boys do. We could accomplish this by achieving SDG #5 Gender Equality. - Charlie

This project helped me understand how gender equality has such an impact on women. I learned that gender equality was so much more important from what I thought it was. -Rina

This project helped me understand how important gender equality is and how women are not able to do the same things as men because they are women. - Julia