Fresh indicators needed to track progress in changing attitudes and women's empowerment, say experts at UN meeting
The laws, traditional beliefs and practices that undermine women's rights must be tackled in the next set of development goals through the inclusion of indicators that measure whether attitudes are changing and women are becoming more empowered, a meeting at the UN was told on Thursday.
At a side event during the Commission on the Status of Women conference in New York, the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) outlined a set of six targets and indicators against which a greater understanding of the root causes of women's disempowerment could be achieved.
The targets would sit under a standalone goal on gender equality and women's empowerment, which women's rights activists have been campaigning to see mentioned in the outcome document of the CSW and included in the future sustainable development goals (SDGs). The targets would also be mainstreamed through all the other goals.
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