Gender

• [New] The African Development Bank on Thursday announced its approval of a new Gender Strategy for 2021-2025: Investing in Africa's women to accelerate inclusive growth.
• [New] If implemented fully, the trade pact could boost regional income by 7% or US$ 450 billion, speed up wage growth for women, and lift 30 million people out of extreme poverty by 2035.
• [New] In good news, dairy farmers have until the end of 2021 to prove they are no longer killing male calves on-farm under new rules which will apply to nearly all UK farms from this month.
• [New] Intel pledged to increase the number of women in technical roles to 40% and double the numbers of women and underrepresented minorities in senior roles by 2030.
• [New] Comic Relief (£1,282,173): Funding will be used for onward grants of between £40,000 and £250,000 to organisations led by BAME women for BAME women, to address violence against women and girls in England.
• Man-made carbon dioxide emissions need to fall by about 45% by 2030, from 2010 levels, and reach net zero by mid-century to give the world a good chance of limiting warming to 1.5 C and avoiding the worst impacts of climate change.
• Twitter set goals for 2025 of having women account for at least one-half of its global workforce, as well as having at least one-quarter of its U.S. workforce be made up of underrepresented minorities.
• Victoria Police is today launching a new 10-year strategy to achieve sustainable gender equality in the organisation by 2030.
• In 2017, the Russian government approved the National Strategy for Women 2017-2022 which aims to improve women's economic status and reduce the gender pay gap by 2022.
• The Korean government incorporated measures to reduce the gender pay gap into the Sixth Basic Plan for Equal Employment Equalization (2018-2022).
• The Federation for Women and Family Planning, a Polish NGO for reproductive health and rights, is raising funds for Polish women as well, and says it will start a special fund for abortion migration.
• Ethiopia's set objectives include zero tolerance for female genital mutilation by 2024 and an increase the Contraceptive Prevalence Rate for women 15 to 49 years old.
• The coming year will be a test for women in crisis management, and Biden' s decision could also be a teachable moment for corporations that have failed to prioritize gender diversity.
• To give US Nasdaq-listed companies time to comply, they will need to publicly disclose their diversity data within a year of S.E.C. approval and have at least one woman or diverse director within two years.
• In 2020 CDC will invest over $1.5 B in companies in Africa and Asia with a focus on fighting climate change, empowering women and creating new jobs and opportunities for millions of people.
• As people lose jobs, many may face disruptions in their health coverage since most people in the U.S. get their insurance through their job.
• The expected increases in life expectancy for South Korean women for the coming years lead to basically no change in the prospective aging measure until 2030, compared to a projected increase in the chronological aging measure which would be the largest experienced so far.
• The United Nations' Global Strategy for Women's, Children's and Adolescents' Health (2016-2030) includes stillbirths in its vision, An end to preventable maternal, newborn, child and adolescent deaths and stillbirths, and urges for stillbirths to be prioritized.
• Despite evidence that increasing gender diversity in Australian businesses alone could add $10.8bn to Australia's economy, women still only make up 26% of the full-time employees in Australia.
• The UN Secretary-General's UNiTE by 2030 to End Violence against Women campaign, managed by UN Women, is a multi-year effort aimed at preventing and eliminating violence against women and girls around the world.
• Nasa's Artemis mission plans to land the first woman and the next man on the moon by 2024, and the UK has already committed more than £16 million for the first phase of its design.
• Nasa has launched its first new space potty in decades on a mission to the International Space Station, where the $23m titanium toilet - designed to be better suited for women - will be tested before it goes to the moon.

Last updated: 14 January 2021