Sustainable Development Goal 8 is about "decent work and economic 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.
DG 8 goal particularly focus on productive employment,decent work for all 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