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Gender Equality - Goal 5

Goal 5: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls

5.1.1Exploring data sources Whether or not legal frameworks are in place to promote, enforce and monitor equality and non‐discrimination on the basis of sex

5.2.1Reported online Proportion of ever-partnered women and girls aged 15 years and older subjected to physical, sexual or psychological violence by a current or former intimate partner in the previous 12 months, by form of violence and by age

5.2.2Exploring data sources Proportion of women and girls aged 15 years and older subjected to sexual violence by persons other than an intimate partner in the previous 12 months, by age and place of occurrence

5.3.1Exploring data sources Proportion of women aged 20–24 years who were married or in a union before age 15 and before age 1

5.3.2Exploring data sources Proportion of girls and women aged 15–49 years who have undergone female genital mutilation/cutting, by age

5.4.1Reported online Proportion of time spent on unpaid domestic and care work, by sex, age and location

5.5.1Reported online Proportion of seats held by women in (a) national parliaments and (b) local governments

5.5.2Reported online Proportion of women in managerial positions

5.6.1Exploring data sources Proportion of women aged 15–49 years who make their own informed decisions regarding sexual relations, contraceptive use and reproductive health care

5.6.2Exploring data sources Number of countries with laws and regulations that guarantee full and equal access to women and men aged 15 years and older to sexual and reproductive health care, information and education

5.a.1Exploring data sources (a) Proportion of total agricultural population with ownership or secure rights over agricultural land, by sex; and (b) share of women among owners or rights-bearers of agricultural land, by type of tenure

5.a.2Exploring data sources Proportion of countries where the legal framework (including customary law) guarantees women’s equal rights to land ownership and/or control

5.b.1Reported online Proportion of individuals who own a mobile telephone, by sex

5.c.1Exploring data sources Proportion of countries with systems to track and make public allocations for gender equality and women’s empowerment

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