我們下一步“北京時刻”：到2030年實現兩性平等
Our Next ‘Beijing Moment’: Achieving Gender Equality by 2030
在二十多年前，許多人聚集在北京參加第四次世界婦女大會，其中189個政府做出重要的承諾，願促進兩性平等和給予婦女權力。當我們回顧這樣一個承諾，今年適逢的世界婦女大會20週年，這個時刻提供了一個機會讓我們來看看，在美國和世界各地，我們在促進性別平的努力達到什麼樣的境地。
為下一代推動性別平等是2015年的潛在主要的發展協議。在女性平等的議題上我們已經取得了具體進展，當談到實現千年發展目標（MDGs），特別是在衛生和教育領域：孕產婦死亡率幾乎減少了一半，而在小學入學率全球性別差距幾乎是零。
但是正當這樣我們共同慶祝這樣的進展，我們也了解到這也是一個時刻來實現我們前進的共同責任：當涉及到全面實現性別平等的數據，清楚地表明由前國務卿克林頓推出的充分參與報導本週，表明我們還沒有完全達到這樣的目標。
為了實現所有這些目標，婦女和女童必須置於發展議程的核心。更大的性別平等是指促成更好的結果。女孩在青春期中正式入學的相關性與晚婚，生育及降低生育率和愛滋病的降低。教育是不是唯一的改變遊戲規則：當參與政治決策的婦女人數達到臨界質量，他們的決定導致更多的包容性的成果。當我們投資於婦女和女孩，我們看到在她的個人潛力的連鎖反應，以及她的家人，她的社區，乃至整個社會的潛力。
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Twenty years ago, tens of thousands of people gathered in Beijing for the Fourth World Conference on Women, where 189 governments made significant commitments to advance gender equality and the empowerment of all women, everywhere. As we reflect back on the unprecedented progress to translate the Beijing Platform for Action into concrete actions, this year’s 20th anniversary and the 59th session of the Commission on the Status of Women offer an opportunity for us to look at how far we’ve come to advance gender equality, both here in the United States and around the world.
We have made concrete progress when it comes to achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), particularly in areas of health and education: the rate of maternal mortality has almost halved, and the global gender gap in primary school enrollment is nearly closed. But as much as this is a moment to celebrate shared progress, it’s also a moment to realize our shared responsibility for moving forward: when it comes to fully achieving gender equality, the data, as clearly demonstrated by former Secretary Clinton’s launch of the Full Participation Report this week, show we are “not there yet.”
To realize any of these goals, women and girls must be at the core of the development agenda. Greater gender equality means better outcomes for everyone. Girls’ attendance in formal school during adolescence is correlated with later marriage, later childbearing, decreased fertility rates, and lower rates of HIV/AIDS. Education is not the only game-changer: when the number of women involved in political decision-making reaches a critical mass, their decisions lead to more inclusive results. And simply by empowering women farmers with the same access to land, new technologies, and capital as men, crop yields can increase by as much as 30 percent and feed an additional 150 million people. When we invest in women and girls, we see a ripple effect on her individual potential, as well as the potential of her family, her community, and entire society.
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