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Parliamentary Submission Sustainability Development Goal: Gender Equality Submission by: Adelaide School: Year 6 student at Forrest Primary Opening Statement Do you know that as a girl, I am more likely to be sexually harassed and earn less money for the same amount of work?

Why do you think this happens even in Australia?

This is happening across the world because girls and women are not being treated equally as boys and men.
Background As part of my year 6 research for Exhibition, I looked at the United Nations Sustainability Development Goal 5 on Gender Equality.

This SDG aims to achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls to live a happy, healthy and a safe life.

The road to equality began with the suffragette movement.

The suffragette movement was created by in the UK by Emmeline Pankhurst and her daughters in the fight to give women the right to vote and be treated equally.
Australia was one of the first countries to give women the right to vote but we have more work to do to be treated as fully equal citizens.

As part of Exhibition my group and I looked at a range of issues including same sex marriage, the suffragette movement, women’s rights in Australia and women’s rights in third world countries.

Findings We looked at statistics from the Australian government, videos about gender equality, articles and books.
We were able to find a lot of information about the suffrage movement and same sex marriage although it was harder to find the information about women’s rights in Australia and third world countries.

We learnt that currently in Australia there has been some progress such as giving women the right to be in Parliament, marry whoever they want, vote, and wear whatever clothing they want to wear.
However, there is still so much to be done to improve the lives of women including closing the gender pay gap and protecting women from domestic violence and harassment.

We must start meeting the targets if we are to achieve gender equality by 2030.

We must end all forms of discrimination against all women and girls everywhere Actions As part of the exhibition we took action to take to promote the SDG.
Our group took action by putting up signs advertising and educating people about gender equality and the SDG’s and running a stall to talk to people about the SDG.

I also presented to my Girl Guide troop and ran an evening United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)Submission 163 - Supplementary Submission 2 session about gender equality including inviting women to talk about their careers and how they have overcome gender bias to be successful.
Proposal I would like to suggest actions for the Australian Government such as... ● Raising the profile of the SDGs with the general public such as putting the SDGs onto our coins to raise awareness of each goal or projecting the goals onto public buildings.

● Putting this information into the Australian school curriculum so that students can learn about the issues and stop this happening in the future.

United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)Submission 163 - Supplementary Submission 2