Our Scans · (LF.5) Gender Equality · Weekly Summary

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In September 2015, 193 world leaders agreed to 17 Global Goals for Sustainable Development. If these Goals are completed, it would mean an end to extreme poverty, inequality and climate change by 2030.
Goal 5: Achieve gender equality and empower women and girls.

• [New] Gender gaps continue to widen and are projected to take 123 years to achieve full gender parity globally. AVPN
• [New] Boosting gender diversity could unlock an additional $12 billion in annual returns - yet gender parity remains distant. The Green Techpreneur
• [New] India's gender gap in economic participation and opportunity remains one of the widest globally, dragging down its overall score. SSBCrackExams
• [New] Reducing the gender employment gap might boost India's GDP by $770 billion by 2025. The Pioneer
• In the United States, partisanship constrains gender affinity, such that women voters will rarely cross party lines to vote for a woman. Cambridge Core
• Ensuring equality of gender remains a pressing issue worldwide, with women experiencing various forms of violence, discrimination, and limited access to opportunities. Scribd
• USDA will finalize a rule that removes gender identity and sexual orientation as protected bases and replaces the term gender throughout with the term sex to comply with an executive action signed by Trump in January. Politico
• The threat of money laundering has profound implications for governance, social development and gender equality. The Guardian Nigeria News - Nigeria and World News
• The Karachi Metropolitan Corporation's 2025 proposal to convert underutilised plots into community gardens with a gender quota is promising and could transform land access if adopted broadly. The Friday Times
• Closing gender gaps in entrepreneurship could result in potential global economic gains of $5 to 6 trillion and increase employment opportunities for women, since women-owned firms tend to hire significantly more women employees than men-owned firms. Brookings
• India's largest 1,000 listed companies will soon be mandated to file a Business Responsibility and Sustainability Report with information covering a broad range of ESG factors including welfare benefits and median wages, gender diversity, and resource usage. MIT OpenCourseWare
• If approved, new Medical Benefits Scheme items would mean Medicare rebates for gender-affirming surgeries, though some out-of-pocket costs will likely remain. The Conversation
• Starting in 2026, gender-affirming care will no longer be covered under the Federal Employees Health Benefits and Postal Service Health Benefits programs, affecting thousands of transgender federal workers and their families. Los Angeles Blade: LGBTQ News, Rights, Politics, Entert
• The US Department of Education would start requiring colleges to annually submit disaggregated admissions data (meaning that colleges will have to report the race, gender, standardized test scores, GPA, and other characteristics of each admitted student). American Enterprise Institute - AEI
• By 2030, the proportion of ageing among PLWH are set to increase across geographic regions and gender. Pharmacy Times

Last updated: 15 September 2025