Alongside Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 5 in the new global Agenda 2030 which aims to “achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls”, gender is also flagged in SDG 1 which exhorts “eliminating poverty in all its forms everywhere”. This holistic and gender-sensitive call is welcome for several reasons, not least because there is considerable evidence that poverty, which is typically linked to income but not reducible to it, encompasses multiple privations which are often disproportionately experienced by women and girls. Leggi tutto »