UNDP 2023 Gender Social Norms Index: Gender bias against women still prevalent among 9 out of 10 people

Gender equality, gender disparity, gender bias and whatever we may call them, have been never ending topics of discussion for decades. We may think sitting in the year 2023, that gender equality has come a long way and women are getting what they deserve, then we are absolutely incorrect.

UNDP 2023 Gender Social Norms Index

Even today gender bias remains ingrained in people and that’s quite evident in the recent data issued by new United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) 2023 Gender Social Norms Index. The report shows that there is hardly any change in people’s attitude towards biases on the basis of gender.

People still justify women being beaten by husbands

According to the report, 9 out of 10 men and women globally still holding such biases today. 50 percent of the people globally still believe that men are better political leaders, and more than 40 percent believe men make better business executives than women. A shocking percentage, that is about 25 per cent of people still justify women being beaten by their husbands.

Better laws and policy measures

The report further focuses on the fact that despite data showing bias against women still being prevalent worldwide, a change is still possible. Experts say that change towards gender equality can only happen with better focus on expand of human developments like laws and policy measures to promote women’s equality in political participation, encourage innovations towards combating biased social norms, patriarchal behaviour and gender stereotypes.

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