5. Gender Equality

Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls

by Daisy Tropea

SOME TARGETS

Eliminate all forms of violence against all women and girls in the public and private spheres, including sexual trafficking and other types of exploitation.
Ensure women’s full and effective participation and equal opportunities for leadership at all levels of decision-making in political, economic and public life.
Undertake reforms to give women equal rights to economic resources.
Adopt and strengthen sound policies and enforceable legislation for the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls at all levels.

SOME INDICATORS

Proportion of ever-partnered women and girls aged 15 years and older subjected to physical, sexual or psychological violence by a current or former intimate partner in the previous 12 months, by form of violence and by age.
Proportion of girls and women aged 15-49 years who have undergone female genital mutilation/cutting, by age
Proportion of seats held by women in national parliaments and local governments and proportion of women in managerial positions.
Proportion of countries with systems to track and make public allocations for gender equality and women’s empowerment.

“Only a small man uses violence on a woman to feel great.”

HOW TOURISM CAN HELP

Tourism can be a tool for women to become fully engaged and lead in every aspect of society.
761.400 of women against 721.600 of man work in Tourism.
The greatest part of the women work in the travel agency or as tour operator, in the restaurant business and in the hotel sector.
An important female presence that can be explained because the women are associated at counselling and treatment, these are key points for tourism.
This is a stereotype that for once helps the women.

SEX TOURISM

Sex tourism is travel to a different place to find sexual activity, particularly with prostitutes and child.
It generally come from developed nations in Europe as well as the United States, Asian countries especially Thailand, the Philippines, Cambodia, and Nepal.

Reasons:

Lower costs for sexual services in the destination country.
Facility to find prostitution and child.
Legality of prostitution.

ECPAT

ECPAT is an expanding network of local civil society organisations and coalitions with one common goal:

to end the sexual exploitation of children around the world.

They coordinate evidence-based advocacy at all levels to strengthen national justice and protection systems and increase investment in the fight against sexual exploitation of children.

#METOO

It is a movement against sexual harassment and sexual assault.
#MeToo spread virally in October 2017 as a hashtag on social media in an attempt to demonstrate the widespread prevalence of sexual assault and harassment, especially in the workplace.
It followed soon after the sexual abuse allegations against Harvey Weinstein.
Milano encouraged victims of sexual harassment to tweet about it and "give people a sense of the magnitude of the problem".

An example: WOMEN ONLY TOUR IN MOROCCO

by Francesca Buggio

“See Morocco through the eyes of one of the country’s first female guides on this week-long women only holiday. ”

You can find all details on the website of Responsible travel

DESCRIPTION:

This small group tour shows you some of the most interesting corners of Morocco. But there’s a twist: as part of an all-female group, you’ll get the privilege of being invited into places mixed gender groups wouldn’t be able to tread thanks to cultural norms. You’ll be hosted by Berber women in sunset-hued Bou Tharar village, help villagers make a breakfast of khobz flatbread and meet the female rug weavers in far-flung villages. Between it all, you’ll be guided through a Moroccan backcountry that many don’t get to see, hiking through desert, scaling the valley-view Tissardan Pass, and tracing the M’Goun River.

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