Of the 17 sustainable goals adopted by the UN in January 2016, more than one-third relate to gender equity (personal comments in brackets):
Goal 3: Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all ages (this includes work-life balance)
Goal 5: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls (’nuff said)
Goal 8: Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all (sustained and inclusive employment includes gender equity in the workplace)
Goal 10: Reduce inequality within and among countries (within countries includes within Canada, don’t self-exclude)
Goal 11: Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable (speaks to the needed reduction of violence against women, particularly rape)
Goal 16: Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels (institutions at all levels includes both governments and, in my opinion, businesses).
We need to continue to work towards a socially sustainable society.