Toward Women’s Empowerment and Gender Equality

This new book, Toward Women’s Empowerment and Gender Equality: Fostering Equitable Growth for Sustainable Development, explores the prevalence of gender inequality and its causes and consequences, using new and inventive ways of measuring gender inequality and providing evidence-based suggestions on how these inequalities can be mitigated. The volume presents studies on the complex social, economic, and political challenges that vary across cultures, geographies, and historical contexts. The volume addresses the 5th Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations, which focuses on achieving gender equality and empowering all women and girls. The diverse topics include the impact of gender equality on sustainable development, women economic empowerment through digitalization, forced child marriage, the psychological effects of gender discrimination, how literacy plays a part in the gender gap, women in the gig economy, the challenges of women in leadership roles, how gender inequality affects women health and mental health, the effects of media representation of women on women self-esteem and career aspirations, and much more. Offering timely and perspective studies on gender equality and women empowerment, this volume provides food for thought and future research for those studying and working on SDG 5 with the aim to reduce gender inequality.