Subject Guides: Sustainable Development Goals at NSCC: Goal 5: Gender Equality

About Goal 5

Goal 5, Gender Equality, aims to achieve gender equality and empower women and girls. This goal strives to eliminate the child marriage of girls, as well as ensure that women are fully represented in leadership roles in our societies.

Learn more about Goal 5

The Global Goals. (2020, October 13). Women & girls: The facts and solutions: Nations united [Video]. YouTube. https://youtu.be/4ZdaddEv1RY

NSCC and Goal 5

Examples of NSCC initiatives that are helping to advance Goal 5: Gender Equality.

Women Unlimited	Part of NSCC, Women Unlimited works with industry, governments, other educational institutions and the community to address systemic barriers that limit the participation of diverse women in trades and technology fields. Close to 1,000 women from under-represented backgrounds have participated in the Women Unlimited program so far; the majority have gone on to continue their education or enter the workforce.
Happiness Now Project	The Happiness Now Project is a Global Skills Opportunity in partnership with the Government of Canada. During this opportunity students have a chance to spend two weeks in Tanzania working with and educating local women on social entrepreneurship. The project is focused on educating and empowering women in Tanzania and creating opportunities for them to create income.
Scotiabank Entrepreneur-in- Making-Program	The Entrepreneur-in-the-Making Program (EITM) provides business start-up funds to a current or past NSCC student who is looking to start or expand their business. All applications are welcome, however, preference is given to applicants from equity-seeking groups.

Resources and Links

The Conversation. The ignored epidemic of hate crime against women and girls
Why is violence against women not treated as a hate crime?
Statistics Canada: Women in Canada: A gender-based statistical report
A compilation of data related to women's family status, education, employment, economic well-being, unpaid work, health, and more
United Nations Population Fund: Seeing the Unseen: the case for action in the neglected crisis of unwanted pregnancy
Women are more likely to experience an unintended pregnancy when they have fewer choices and less power. This report examines those conditions.
World Health Organization. Gender, equity and human rights.
Supports and coordinates the mainstreaming of gender, equity and human rights approaches in health at all levels of WHO

Books

Invisible women: Data bias in a world designed for men by Caroline Criado Perez
Data is fundamental to the modern world. But because so much data fails to take into account gender, because it treats men as the default and women as atypical, bias and discrimination are baked into our systems.
eBook - Public policy for women: The state, income security, and labour market issues by Griffith Cohen & Pulkingham (Eds.)
Containing essays from leading feminist academics, and social activists, this book addresses important public policy issues that fail to address women's needs.
eBook - Women's empowerment and global health by Dworkin et. al (Eds.)
What is women's empowerment, and how and why does it matter for women's health? These are questions that the University of California Global Health Institute's (UCGHI) Center of Expertise (COE) on Women's Health, Gender, and Empowerment aimed to answer with this book.

Key Organizations

Amnesty International: Women's rights
Through research, advocacy and campaigning, Amnesty International pressures the people in power to respect women’s rights.
Canadian Women's Foundation
Focused on critical challenges facing diverse women, girls, and Two Spirit, trans, and non-binary people all over Canada today
Every Woman Every Child
Launched in 2010 to catalyze a political movement to advance the health and well-being of women, children and adolescents everywhere.
UN Women
Dedicated to gender equality and the empowerment of women. A global champion for women and girls, established to accelerate progress on meeting their needs worldwide.