Today we take a closer look at data related to gender equality in honor of International Women’s Day 2024. The DHS Program routinely collects data on Sustainable Development Goal #5 related to gender equality in specific areas such as labor market participation, experience of violence, female genital mutilation, and more. This year’s United Nations theme is “Invest […]
In response to interest from country-level stakeholders around the inclusion of sexual and gender minorities in DHS surveys, The DHS Program has been documenting the experiences of surveys that have included adaptations to account for and measure topics related to gender and sexual minorities. On March 28, 2023, The DHS Program held a webinar to […]
The DHS Program collects data for Sustainable Development Goal #5 to achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls. The theme for International Women’s Day 2023 is “Embrace Equality.” According to the UN, gender equality is not only a fundamental human right, but a necessary foundation for a peaceful, prosperous, and sustainable world. There […]
The DHS Program collects data for Sustainable Development Goal #5 related to gender equality. For International Women’s Day 2021, UN Women’s theme is “Women in leadership: achieving an equal future in a COVID-19 world.” The DHS Program has a long history of collecting data on women’s decision making power, equal earnings, domestic violence, access to […]
Five years since world leaders agreed to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to create a better world by 2030, this year’s theme for International Women’s Day, I am Generation Equality: Realizing Women’s Rights, challenges everyone to reflect on how a gender-equal world will be achieved. DHS data describe the status of women around the world. […]
The 16 Days of Activism against Gender-based Violence campaign is back in action for 2019 under the theme “Orange the World: Generation Equality Stands against Rape!” This year, The DHS Program is highlighting sexual and physical violence indicators, as well as help seeking behavior in Tajikistan, Pakistan, Nigeria, Benin, and Mali. Click on a graph […]
© 2016 Kato James, Courtesy of Photoshare The DHS Program is now in its 35th year with a long history of helping to collect, analyze, and disseminate data on women’s empowerment, gender equality, men’s engagement, and gender-based violence within the context of health and development. Historically, The DHS Program has integrated attention to gender in […]
We are halfway through the 16 days of Activism against Gender-based Violence, but there is still time to get involved. The DHS Program has a variety of resources to help you learn about the prevalence of violence against women around the world. Since 2000, The DHS Program has collected domestic violence data in more than 50 countries. Explore […]
For over 20 years, The DHS Program has collected information related to women’s empowerment, experience of spousal violence, women’s participation in decision making, and, more recently, women’s access to money and credit. International Women’s Day is the perfect opportunity to celebrate the progress women have made based on one of our most highly anticipated surveys. The […]
International Women’s Day, March 8, never fails to give me pause: while it provides a time and space to celebrate women’s achievements and evaluate progress toward attaining gender equality, it also makes me wonder when we – all of humanity – will no longer need to set aside a special day to focus attention on […]