Sustainable Development Goal 8 is about "decent work and economic DG 8 goal particularly focus on productive employment,decent work for
work for all
growth" and is one of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals which
were established by the United Nations General Assembly in 2015.
The full title is to "Foster sustained, inclusive and sustainable
economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work
for all.
Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full
and productive employment and decent work for all can be illustrated
by ensuring proper policy-making and legislative work with higher
quality and greater relevance for society, because it makes policies
respond more effectively to the needs of all citizens – women and
men, girls and boys. Women empowerment helps in boosting the
status of women through literacy, education, training and awareness
creation. Furthermore, women's empowerment refers to women's
ability to make strategic life choices which had been previously denied
them.
This goal aims at ensuring the economic sector of every country
provides the necessary need for its citizen to have a good life
irrespective of their background, race or culture and gender. To
achieve the goal, it is divided into some targets to achieve full and
productive employment and decent work for all women and men.
more specifically, it states about average hourly earnings of female
and male employees by occupation, age and persons with disabilities.
One of the important target of SDG 8 is about ensuring labor rights
and promoting safe working environments. Gender Mainstreaming as
a strategic approach for achieving the goal of gender equality, has
been mandated in the UN system since the Beijing Platform for Action
(1995) and agreed conclusions of the Economic and Social Council
and subsequently across all of the major areas of work of the UN
system.
men and women and economic growth that promise of inclusive,
sustainable and decent work to be realized.
SDG8 implicitly builds on the ILO’s Decent Work agenda, with its four
‘core standards’ – freedom from forced labour, freedom from child labour,
freedom from discrimination at work; freedom to form and join a union,
and to bargain collectively. This itself is the product of longstanding and
contentious debates between corporate and state actors, trade unions,
NGOs, women’s organisations, and emerging labour groups of the informal
sector.
The ECOSOC defined gender mainstreaming as “a strategy for making
women’s as well as men’s concerns and experiences an integral dimension
of the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of policies and
programs in all political, economic and societal spheres so that women and
men benefit equally, and inequality is not perpetrated. Both targeted
interventions and integrated operations are valid forms of gender
mainstreaming measures."
In addition,In response to the claims articulated by feminist and labour
movements, ILO’s core standards recognize the need to address diverse and
varied experiences of the workplace: ‘To promote decent and productive
work for women and men in conditions of freedom, equity, security and
human dignity. All workers have the right to decent work, not only those
working in the formal economy, but also the self-employed, casual and
informal economy workers, as well as those, predominantly women,
working in the care economy and private households’ (ILO, 2012, pp v)
So if the SDG goal 8 is achieved, it means gender mainstream and women
empowerment have been achieved which will not only cause an end to
women sufferings but also will help to make the world aa better place to
live