UN / WORLD’S WOMEN 2010 LAUNCH

A UN report says that despite much progress accomplished in ensuring the equal status of women and men in many areas, including school enrolment, health and economic participation throughout the world, much more needs to be done to close the gender gaps in public life. Today is World Statistics Day. UNTV / FILE

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:02:08
• Production Date: 20 October 2010
• Asset Language: Original
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS CHILDREN'S FUND - UNICEF
• Subject Topical: WOMEN'S RIGHTS
• Geographic Subject: UNITED NATIONS STABILIZATION MISSION IN HAITI - MINUSTAH
• MAMS Id: U101020c

Description

STORY: UN / WORLD’S WOMEN 2010 LAUNCH
SOURCE: UNTV/ UNICEF/ UNAMA/ MINUSTAH
TRT: 2.08
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH/ NATS

DATELINE: 20 OCTOBER 2010, NEW YORK CITY/ FILE

Shotlist

FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY

1. Wide shot, exterior UN building

20 OCTOBER 2010, NEW YORK CITY

2. Wide shot, dais
3. Med shot, journalists
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Jomo Kwame Sundaram, Assistant Secretary-General, Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA):
“This 2010 report finds overall progress in many areas including school enrolment, health as well as economic participation but it makes very clear that much more needs to be done, in particular on the need to close the gender gap in public life and to prevent many forms of violence against women.”
5. Med shot, journalists
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Jomo Kwame Sundaram, Assistant Secretary-General, Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA):
“Over the years women have entered traditionally male dominated occupations; however they are still rarely employed in jobs with status, power and authority. Women are significantly unrepresented among legislatures, senior officials, as well as managers. While the gender pay gap is closing slowly in some countries, it has remained unchanged in others.”
7. Med shot, journalists
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Srdjan Mrkic, Chief, Social Statistics Section, Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA):
“In some areas, such as in education, primary education for example the gaps are almost non-existent and we see that the primary school enrolment is equal for boys and girls. However when in comes to other areas, the gap is significant and in some case formidable. For example, in some countries, the salaries for females are always lower than those of men for the same, exactly the same occupation and the same jobs. So, we are really going from one phenomenon to the other and emphasising how big are these gaps and how long it might take for these gaps to narrow.”

FILE – UNTV – UNDATED, FREETOWN, LIBERIA

9. Wide shot, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, President of Liberia leading a march

FILE - UNICEF - 22 MARCH 2008, PULI KHUMRI, AFGHANISTAN

10. Med shot, girls walking out of classroom after enrolling in school
11. Med shot, girls walking in school yard after enrolment

FILE – UNAMA – 18 SEPTEMBER 2010, KABUL, AFGHANISTAN

12. Tracking shot, woman casting her ballot

FILE – MINUSTAH - 10 MARCH 2009, PORT AU PRINCE, HAITI

13. Various shots, women working in clothing factory

Storyline

Despite much progress accomplished in ensuring the equal status of women and men in many areas, including school enrolment, health and economic participation throughout the world, a report launched today (20 October) by the United Nations makes it clear that still much more needs to be done, in particular to close the gender gaps in public life.

Assistant Secretary-General Jomo Kwame Sundaram told reporters in New York that although women have entered traditionally male dominated occupations, according to World’s Women 2010: Trends and Statistics, “they are still rarely employed in jobs with status, power and authority.”

Sundaram said that women are “significantly unrepresented among legislatures, senior officials, as well as managers” and that “while the gender pay gap is closing slowly in some countries, it has remained unchanged in others.”

Asia-Pacific, according to the report, trails the rest of the world in the share of women ministers, with less than 10 per cent of ministers in Governments in the region being women.

The report, published every five years, is being launched simultaneously in New York, Shanghai and Bangkok, on the occasion of World Statistics Day.

Srdjan Mrkic, Chief of Social Statistics Section at the Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) said that in some areas, such as in primary education “the gaps are almost non-existent” with equal levels of enrolment for boys and girls. However, he said, in other areas, “the gap is significant and in some case formidable”.

He noted that in some countries, “the salaries for females are always lower than those of men” for “exactly the same occupation and the same jobs”.

The World’s Women is a unique publication which presents statistics and analysis on the status of women and men in the world, covering eight key areas: population and families, health, education, work, power and decision-making, violence against women, environment, and poverty.