Water Building A "Planet 50:50 By 2030"
by The Daily Eye Team March 9 2016, 1:02 pm Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 33 secsToday is International Women's Day, and this year's theme is "Planet 50-50 by 2030: Step it up for Gender Equality!" The reference to 2030 is about the deadline for the newly adopted Sustainable Development Goal (SDGs) which chart out the new roadmap for global development for all countries of the world for the next 15 years.But what's the big commotion? Many people seem to think that there's no such thing as gender inequality anymore, and that women and girls have reached the same respect, appreciation and acknowledgement as men and boys have as equal members of the societies they live in. Don't we already live in "Planet 50-50"?