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Freedom cannot be achieved unless women have been emancipated from all kinds of oppression.”

Gender inequity is too often among the family and healthcare dynamics that have long-term health implications for children as they grow up: Within families, the physical, emotional, and financial health of women – mothers in particular – are inextricably linked to the health and well-being of children. Fathers, too, play a key role in whether a child has access to healthcare and opportunities.      Achieving gender equity that facilitates health works best as a collective partnership between family members, communities, and health systems. It starts with putting the mother and child at the center and prioritizing health at home and in the clinic – from support of breastfeeding to safe, hygienic, family-friendly primary healthcare access. Everybody plays a part.
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Achieving the promise of gender equality

In 2015 as part of the Sustainable Development Goals the world committed itself to achieve gender equality. The Sustainable Development Goals were a result of a UN-led process, involving its 193 Member States, which committed the world to 17 goals as part of its 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The objectives are far-reaching: to end all discrimination and eliminate violence against women and girls; ensure full participation in decision-making; and achieve universal access to reproductive rights. All this by 2030. “It is time that we all see gender as a spectrum instead of two sets of opposing ideals.” “Achieving gender equality requires the engagement of women and men, girls and boys. It is everyone's responsibility.” “Gender equality is more than a goal in itself.
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Achieving gender justice is not only a matter of basic rights.

Achieving gender justice is not only a matter of basic rights. It’s also a key means of achieving fairer societies and overcoming poverty. And we all have an equal part to play in making it happen. We’ve seen the difference that equal job opportunities, equal healthcare and education, equal decision-making power and freedom from violence can make. We’ve seen the difference when women and girls are able to make their own choices and exercise their collective voice, and when institutions address their needs and interests.
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Equality and equity between women and men

 Achieving gender justice to tackle poverty Oxfam understands gender justice as the full equality and equity between women and men in all spheres of life, resulting in women jointly, and on an equal basis with men, defining and shaping the policies, structures and decisions that affect their lives and society as a whole. Further improvements in legislation and policy are necessary but not sufficient. We believe that transforming gender and power relations, and the structures, norms and values that underpin them, is critical to ending poverty and challenging inequality. We believe that women taking control and taking collective action are the most important drivers of sustained improvements in women's rights, and are a powerful force to end poverty not only for women and girls, but for others too.
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Introduction

 Every day, in every country in the world, women are confronted by discrimination and inequality. They face violence, abuse and unequal treatment at home, at work and in their wider communities – and are denied opportunities to learn, to earn and to lead. Women form the majority of those living in poverty. They have fewer resources, less power and less influence compared to men, and can experience further inequality because of their class, ethnicity and age, as well as religious and other fundamentalism. Gender inequality is a key driver of poverty. And a fundamental denial of women's rights.
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