UN's 2030 gender equality goal 'impossible because of biases against women'

The UN's Gender Snapshot 2023 report said less than two-thirds of women aged 25 to 54, 61.4%, were in the labour force in 2022 compared to 90.6% of men, and the women were paid far less. Picture: iStock

The UN goal of achieving gender equality by 2030 is impossible to attain because of deeply rooted biases against women around the world in heath, education, employment and the halls of power, the United Nations has claimed.

"The world is failing women and girls," UN Women, the agency promoting gender equality, and the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (Ecosoc) said in the Gender Snapshot 2023 report.