Why invest in Gender Equality in Georgia?

WHY INVEST IN GENDER EQÜALITY in GEORGIA + + + WOMEN SUCCEED IN HIGHER EDUCATION + 49% + 22% WOMEN outnumber MEN in universities 9% and doctoral degrees hello school children higher education students students at doctorate level BUT HAVE UNEQUAL ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES 75 o 1$ 54 58 cents WOMEN workforce is SMALLER than men's 27% 20% of firms are HEADED by WOMEN WOMEN earn less than 60% of men's income AND ARE UNDER-REPRESENTED IN DECISION MAKING 16% WOMEN Count of MINISTERIAL POSITIONS 11% REPRESENTATIVES 10% IN LOCAL COUNCILS of only for 12% of political voices of PARLIAMENTARIANS GENDER EQUALITY IS FAR FROM BEING ACHIEVED Lack of gender sensitive policies perpetuates 0,13 Western Europe INEQUALITIES 0,42 Georgia and STEREOTYPES 0,1 02 0,3 04 08 0,9 0,5 INVESTING IN POLICIES THAT PROMOTE GENDER EQUALITY BETWEEN MEN AND WOMEN CREATE MORE SUSTAINABLE SOCIETIES Enhancing Gender Equality in Georgia * Sources http://www.geostat.ge/index.php?lang=eng | http://hdr.undp.org/en/reports/global/hdr2011/download/ | For more information please visit the UNDP Europe and CIS website http://europeandcis.undp.org/ 目 WHY INVEST IN GENDER EQÜALITY in GEORGIA + + + WOMEN SUCCEED IN HIGHER EDUCATION + 49% + 22% WOMEN outnumber MEN in universities 9% and doctoral degrees hello school children higher education students students at doctorate level BUT HAVE UNEQUAL ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES 75 o 1$ 54 58 cents WOMEN workforce is SMALLER than men's 27% 20% of firms are HEADED by WOMEN WOMEN earn less than 60% of men's income AND ARE UNDER-REPRESENTED IN DECISION MAKING 16% WOMEN Count of MINISTERIAL POSITIONS 11% REPRESENTATIVES 10% IN LOCAL COUNCILS of only for 12% of political voices of PARLIAMENTARIANS GENDER EQUALITY IS FAR FROM BEING ACHIEVED Lack of gender sensitive policies perpetuates 0,13 Western Europe INEQUALITIES 0,42 Georgia and STEREOTYPES 0,1 02 0,3 04 08 0,9 0,5 INVESTING IN POLICIES THAT PROMOTE GENDER EQUALITY BETWEEN MEN AND WOMEN CREATE MORE SUSTAINABLE SOCIETIES Enhancing Gender Equality in Georgia * Sources http://www.geostat.ge/index.php?lang=eng | http://hdr.undp.org/en/reports/global/hdr2011/download/ | For more information please visit the UNDP Europe and CIS website http://europeandcis.undp.org/ 目