Exploring the UN Sustainable Development Goals — Goal 5: Gender
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The fifth UN SDG is to achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls. This goal is imperative in the progress toward many of the other SDGs and lays the foundation for a healthy, sustainable, and thriving society. We recently talked to Rebecca Geiger, assistant director of the Penn State Gender Equity Center, to better understand this topic and how we all might be able to play a part in achieving this goal.
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Sustainable Development Goals: Goal 5, Gender Equality
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UN Sustainable Development Goals - Franco Harris Pittsburgh Center at Penn State
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Spotlight on Sustainable Development Goal 5: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
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SDG Resources for Educators - Gender Equality
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Goal 5: Gender Equality UMN Sustainable Development Goals
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Gender equality SDG 5: Gender equality
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The 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Numbers following goal
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UN Sustainable Development Goals - Franco Harris Pittsburgh Center at Penn State
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Coming together: Forging new paths to action for the Sustainable Development Goals
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UN Sustainable Development Goals - Franco Harris Pittsburgh Center at Penn State
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Are we on track to achieve gender equality by 2030?
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Gender Equality and the Sustainable Development Goals in Asia and the Pacific: Baseline and Pathways for Transformative Change by 2030
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