United Nations Gender Network: United Nations policy proposal on gender equality and parity

Freedman, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3037-9026 and O'Donoghue, A., (2018) United Nations Gender Network: United Nations policy proposal on gender equality and parity. Report. United Nations Gender Network doi: 10.2139/ssrn.3114056

Abstract/Summary

The UN Gender Network (UNGN) is rooted in both strengthening the UN’s leadership of gender equality and the empowerment of women working within the UN Secretariat, Funds, Programmes and Agencies. The UNGN believes that to enhance the UN’s leadership legitimacy in all areas but particularly regarding gender equality; to ensure the UN attracts the best talent from around the globe and to guarantee the UN fully represents ‘we the peoples’ significant change regarding gender equality amongst UN staff is required. This policy paper places the women who work at the UN at its core. This policy looks at the history of women working at the Organisation, past attempts to strengthen their roles and looking to the future, suggests changes at the both the policy and practice levels to ensure that women working at the UN will be better served. This policy proposal aims to cause a significant shift in not just the numbers of women working at all levels at the UN but also their experiences within the workplace. The policy’s goal is to make the UN a better place for all staff to work and in doing so ensuring they can lead states in making their own workplaces into spaces where gender equality is without question a good.

Item Type	Report (Report)
URI	https://reading-clone.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/98985
Identification Number/DOI	10.2139/ssrn.3114056
Divisions	Arts, Humanities and Social Science > School of Law
Publisher	United Nations Gender Network
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