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Women need to earn as much as men for doing the same job. That was the clear message from the head of UN Women, the UN’s gender agency, speaking alongside the Canadian Prime Minister at UN headquarters this week. Women in most countries earn on average only 60 to 75 per cent of men’s wages, the UN says. Jocelyne Sambira has the story.

Women need to earn as much as men for doing the same job.

That was the clear message from the head of the UN’s gender agency, speaking alongside the Canadian Prime Minister at UN headquarters on Wednesday.

Women in most countries earn on average only 60 to 75 per cent of men’s wages, the UN says.

“Step it up” for a gender-equal world, urges UN Women chief

“Step it up” so that women and men, boys and girls have equal rights by 2030, the head of a UN agency focusing on gender issues has urged world leaders.

The call was made ahead of International Women’s Day 2016, observed annually on 8 March.

Heads of State and Government have pledged to crack some of the barriers to closing the gender equality gaps in their countries.

UN Women is calling that aspiration towards gender equality “Planet 50-50”.

The celebration of International Women’s Day on 8 March should remind the world that there is “still a long way to go” before gender equality is fully achieved.

That’s the opinion of Maria Noel Vaeza, Director of the Programme Division at UN Women, the UN’s gender entity, which is calling on countries to step up efforts to close the gender gap, by 2030.

Algerian mothers are being empowered to raise their sons to reject the use of any violence against women.

That’s just one of the bold initiatives being taken by the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) inside the north African country, ahead of International Women’s Day, celebrated on March 8.

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