Secretary-General’s report and resolution summary: How to improve the representation of women at the United Nations

This summary publication is based on the Secretary-General’s report on the “Improvement in the status of women in the United Nations system”. The report is published biennially by UN Women, based on its mandate to monitor and report on the status of women and progress of gender parity in the UN system.

This publication provides a summary of the key statistics on the representation of women in the UN system, barriers to achieving gender parity, and recommended actions to assist UN entities to reach gender parity.

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ii + 5

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Manuals and tools

Publishing entities

United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women)

UN Women office publishing

UN Women Headquarters Office

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Accountability Beijing Platform for Action Ending violence against women and girls Gender data gaps Gender data production and collection Gender statistics Intergovernmental processes Monitoring, evaluation and reporting Sex-disaggregated data Sexual harassment UN system coordination Women in the UN system