Priority Gender Equality

Sport is essential to foster individual well-being and healthy, vibrant and sustainable communities. Despite considerable advances in recent years, gender inequalities persist in virtually every aspect of sport. UNESCO’s Sport and Gender Equality Game Plan provides decision-makers with tools, resources and good practice examples for realizing gender equality in and through sport.

Presenting key data, best practices and lessons learned to show how UNESCO and its partners have provided concrete and effective solutions during the 2022-2023 biennium to advance gender equality by reducing inequalities in and through education; empowering women in science and technology for environmental action; promoting inclusion and combatting gender-based violence; bridging the digital gender divide and supporting women’s empowerment in crisis, emergency and early recovery contexts.

The arrival of generative AI introduces new, unexplored questions: what are the companies’ policies and normative cultures that perpetuate technology-facilitated gender-based violence and harms? How do AI-based technologies facilitate gender-specific harassment and hate speech? What “prompt hacks” can lead to gendered disinformation, hate speech, harassment, and attacks? What measures can companies, governments, civil society organisations and independent researchers take to anticipate and mitigate these risks?