📅 7 July 2022 🕑 7:30 AM – 9:00AM ET
Virtual
As “Progress on the Sustainable Development Goals: The Gender Snapshot 2021” makes clear, women and girls remain disproportionately affected by the socioeconomic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic, struggling with lost jobs and livelihoods, derailed education, and increased burdens of unpaid care work. Women’s health services have faced major disruptions, undermining women’s sexual and reproductive health.
And despite women’s central roles in responding to COVID-19, they have been largely excluded from decision-making during the pandemic. As a result, progress on SDG 5 targets is lagging far behind. Getting the SDGs back on track will require Governments to implement gender-responsive policy measures, while the climate crisis is escalating in severity.
This side event at the HLPF, co-organized by UN Women, UNDP, and ILO, will bring together a panel of policymakers, UN agencies, and civil society to assess progress on SDG 5 and to analyze governments’ responses to COVID-19 from a gender perspective.