There are 1.1 billion girls today, a powerful constituency
for shaping a sustainable world that’s better for everyone. They are brimming
with talent and creativity. But their dreams and potential are often thwarted
by discrimination, violence and lack of equal opportunities. There are glaring
gaps in data and knowledge about the specific needs and challenges that girls
face.
On the International Day of the Girl Child, League of Young
Female Leaders encourage more girls and women to take up decision making roles
in their schools and communities offering free consultancy to young women who
wanted to pursue leadership in diverse ways.
In honor of the International Day of the Girl Child gathered
girls from different schools and engaged them in educational activities and
tasked them to write about the women who inspire, motivate, influence and interact
with in their day in day out activities.
While the League of Young Female Leaders embarking on this advocacy journey, the need
to raise a generation of women leaders with varied professional backgrounds and
the need to explore various development sectors like entrepreneurship and
education became the center of discussion among interested parties
What gets counted, gets done. The theme for this year’s
International Day of the Girl Child, on 11 October, “Girls’ Progress = Goals’
Progress: A Global Girl Data Movement”, is a call for action for increased
investment in collecting and analyzing girl focused, girl-relevant and sex disaggregated
data. One year into the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, improving data
on girls and addressing the issues that are holding them back is critical for
fulfilling the Sustainable Development Goals
“The League” comes in the wake of a global call to
incorporate the feminine voice at all levels of decision making, to eliminate
all forms of discrimination against the feminine side, to bridge generational
gaps that exist among girls and women, to form a single solidarity movement
devoid of any differences like age, religion, ethnicity among others. says
League of Young Female Leaders.
One such issue that is standing in the way of girls’
progress is child, early and forced marriage. The data is daunting one in three
girls in developing countries (except China) get married before they turn 18.
Girls who are child brides miss out on education, are more vulnerable to
physical and sexual violence, and bear children before they are physically or
emotionally prepared. The cycle of violence that begins in girlhood, carries
over into womanhood and across generations. The 2030 Agenda must address their
needs and unlock their potential.
According to the League of Young Female Leaders, '' In order for our society to reach where it
yearns to be, there is the need to create a well-balanced society where
decision making is not monopolized by men from our homes, to schools and to
other institutions. Leadership being considered the core of societal
development therefore needs to involve both male and female. Unfortunately, the
female is often left out in the spheres of leadership all over the world due to
certain religious, cultural and institutional misappropriations.
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