There are a number of Sustainable development goals that directly or indirectly relate to providing girl’s education, and other basic requirements for them lead an independent and successful life. These goals are mentioned as follows:
1. Goal 4 Quality Education : This goal ensures that everyone gets quality education without any biases in forms of societal status or gender biases. Educating girls is a crucial aspect of this goal.
2. Goal 5 Gender equality : Gender equality goal intrinsically includes the goal of providing easy access to education for girls. Education empowers girls, makes them aware and leads to less gender biases.
3. Goal 10 Reduced inequalities : This goal too aims at reducing all kinds of inequalities and hence it includes educating women, who are often the target of inequal treatment in society.
4 Goal 1 No Poverty : Educated women often earn more than their male counterparts and can add significantly to the improving economy of the nation. Hence, educating women is essential to reducing poverty.
5 Goal 3 Good Health and Well Being : Educating women leads to healthier families and reduced ifnat mortality rates. Women are the core for producing healthy families and societies in general.
6 Goal 8 Decent Work and economic growth : Educated girls participate in the workforce of the nation and lead to the overall economic growth.
7 Goal 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions : It is evident from global statistics that higher educated percentage of women in countries lead to stronger institutions promoting peace and justice.
Throughout history, women have been subjected to oppression, neglect and scrutiny. Women have had a really hard time to stand next to their counterpart gender – ‘man.’ Talking freely about women’s rights is an active and effective part of women empowerment movement. If all the above mentioned goals are taken seriously, then gender equality and women empowerment will not be goals to be achieved in the nearby future. Instead they would become a living present reality manifesting itself.