Gender Mainstreaming Quotes

Investing in women is smart economics, and investing in girls, catching them upstream, is even smarter economics.

The Egyptian society needs to include its women if it wants to have economic prosperity.

There is no development strategy more beneficial to society as a whole - women and men alike - than the one which involves women as central players.

The connection between women's human rights, gender equality, socioeconomic development and peace is increasingly apparent.

To protect women in times of war, we must first make sure women receive equal rights in times of peace.

UN peacekeeping operations are now increasingly complex and multi-dimensional, going beyond monitoring a ceasefire to actually bringing failed States back to life, often after decades of conflict. The blue helmets and their civilian colleagues work together to organize elections, enact police and judicial reform, promote and protect human rights, conduct mine-clearance, advance gender equality, achieve the voluntary disarmament of former combatants, and support the return of refugees and displaced people to their homes.

We put a gender lens on our whole value chain.

I call for greater measures to involve more women at higher levels in mine action. Governments should do more to address gender in their mine action programmes and through their implementation of the Anti-personnel Mine Ban Convention.

If you always have consciousness of gender equality at the heart of your policies, then you will have much more democratic, much more sustainable development.

Grounded in international human rights, gender equality doesn’t just improve the lives of individual women, girls, and their families; it makes economic sense, strengthens democracy, and enables long-term sustainable progress.

I have been talking to trade ministers in various countries who all say that gender inclusivity is important to them. We need to make this importance visible to the rest of the world and catalyse action towards more inclusive trade.

Ten years ago in Nairobi we said that the participation of women in the decision-making and appraisal processes of the United Nations was essential if the organization was to effectively serve women's interests.

It appears easier to talk about protecting women than it is to fully include women at all decision-making levels in peace talks and post-conflict planning.

When the history of African development is written, it will be clear that a turning point involved the empowerment of women.

Achieving gender equality requires the engagement of women and men, girls and boys. It is everyone's responsibility.

On many occasions New Zealand has spoken about the need to ensure that women's concerns are fully integrated into all aspects of the United Nations' activities and structures, not marginalised in one part of the Secretariat.

We are convinced that gender equality is the foundation of sustainable peace and development and that gender-based violence needs to be addressed head-on as part of the efforts to build peace.

My major obligation or responsibility is to work to integrate gender issues throughout the work of the State Department.