Building Quote by Kofi Annan

Gender equality and empowerment of women is key to the success of the Millennium Development Goals. Not only as a specific target, but for…

— Anonymous

Achieving gender equality requires the engagement of women and men, girls and boys. It is everyones responsibility.

— Ban Ki-moon

Grounded in international human rights, gender equality doesn’t just improve the lives of individual women, girls, and their families; it makes economic sense, strengthens…

— Helen Clark

Achieving gender equality requires the engagement of women and men, girls and boys. It is everyone's responsibility.

— Ban Ki-moon

Gender equality has a transformative effect that is essential to fully functioning communities, societies, and economies.

— Antonio Guterres

We are convinced that gender equality is the foundation of sustainable peace and development and that gender-based violence needs to be addressed head-on as…

— Isabella Lovin

The goal of equality seems to disproportionately burden women, since it's assumed that they have to assume more responsibility, while men can remain the…

— Amy Richards

Gender equality is essential for ensuring that men and women can contribute fully at home, at work, and in public life for the betterment…

— Jose Angel Gurria

Any serious shift towards more sustainable societies has to include gender equality.

— Helen Clark

In order to achieve that end goal of equality it is a very gendered oppression primarily affecting women that needs to be tackled.

— Laura Bates

If you always have consciousness of gender equality at the heart of your policies, then you will have much more democratic, much more sustainable…

— Isabella Lovin

Gender equality must become a lived reality

— Michelle Bachelet