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Proposed goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls LRGs play a crucial role in developing policies to promote gender equality. While the whole set of targets proposed by the OWG should be disaggregated by urban/rural to facilitate coordination between policies of different levels of government, we focus on target 5.5 as it has direct political, economic and social links with local institutions. UN Habitat (City Prosperity Index, 2014) proposes to “localize” the following index in urban areas: women in the workforce. Target 5.5. Ensure women’s full and effective participation and equal opportunities for leadership at all levels of decision-making in political, economic, and public life (a) Dimensions to be measured: - Equal opportunities for leadership in the political sphere - Equal opportunities for leadership in the private sphere (b) Proposed indicators: Proposed indicators 1. Proportion of seats held by women in national and sub-national elected office according to their share of the population (revised MDG Indicator) 2.
Proportion of managerial positions held by women in local administrations
Comments: outline the link to goal 1.b on gender-sensitive development.
Possible alternative indicators Women representation rate in elected local government positions (UN Habitat, CPI, 2014)
Comments (Linkages, disaggregation and sources) Linkages: -Disaggregation by: urban/rural TBD (not currently available) Sources: Proposed by UNSDSN/UNHABITAT, CPI (2014); not readily available. Linkages: Disaggregation by: Urban / rural TBD (not currently available) Sources: TBC