Endless Fight for Gender Equality Precious Mushonga.

The Global Gender Gap Report 2022 states that gender parity is not recovering, and it will take 136 years to close the global gender gap. This is clear that the endless fight for gender equality requires everyone to be involved in order to eliminate gender inequality. The initiative of achieving full gender equality, therefore, remains insoluble in the midst of current global crises affect ing mostly women in addition to patriar chal traditions and norms in different countries that hinder women to partici pate fully in areas that affect their well-being and future. Despite the documented and reported progress towards achieving gender equality, women continue being margin alized and underrepresented. Evidently, the progress made is insufficient as the gender imbalance is unchanging.

Thus, after all the years of advocating and fighting for gender equality, gender inequality still exists. This is evident by the continuation if not repetition of "reaffirming and strength ening political commitment to the realization of gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls. Therefore, progress made toward gender equality is repeatedly accompanied by further calls for action. Gender inequality varies in different societies and takes various forms. Both women and girls are largely underrepre sented and are subject to stereotypes, stigma, and femicide or violence. Besides this, the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, accelerating climate change, disasters, and geopoliti cal conflicts have intensified gender inequality. As a result, this has adversely affected women's rights across the world. Global crises Observably, the most urgent issue around the world is climate change.

Climate change impacts are unprece dented, especially on women as it leads to poverty. For example, climate change has devastating effects on mass agricul tural production. As crucial as climate change is, it is imperative that women are prioritized in today's society that is embedded with such challenges that require the inclu sion of women. This is because women are more vulnerable compared to their counterparts. UN Women's Chief and Executive Direc tor, Sima Bahous has highlighted the need for women's leadership at all levels and the role played by women in import ant areas. Around the world, women struggle to recover from natural disasters in addition to other catastrophic effects of global warming. For most women, the lack of financial knowledge as well as freedom restricts...