Sentence examples for called for gender equality from inspiring English sources

Amanda Seyfried has called for gender equality in Hollywood after revealing that she was recently paid just 10 per cent of a male co-star's salary.

Her comments come after actress Geena Davis called for gender equality in the industry as she launched a global symposium on gender in media at BFI London Film Festival earlier this month.

We are calling for gender equality to be mainstreamed across the new framework – not buried within specific goals.

Though I had formally been excommunicated, I remained a priest with my Maryknoll Order and went about my ministry calling for gender equality in the Catholic Church.

It establishes human rights as core principles, recognises Berber, spoken by many Moroccans alongside Arabic, as an official language and calls for gender equality.

"Why, every time I say I'm a feminist, does the Twitterverse explode?" he asked, adding that calling for gender equality should be a mainstream political position.

They are also calling for gender equality to become the mainstay for all other goals, and for the inclusion of strong language to underscore the importance of upholding women's rights in future agreements.

Last month, a petition calling for gender equality in politics – signed by 5,500 Uruguayans – was handed to party leaders in the presence of the actor Emma Watson, UN Women's goodwill ambassador.

Accountability is particularly critical in realizing the promise of Sustainable Development Goal 5, which calls for gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls.

In August, to help improve the lives of female drug users, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC, UNN Women and the International Network of People who Use Drugs (INPUD) released a joint policy brief, calling for gender equality in the field of harm reduction.

Bellamy pointed out that the nations of the world have put women high on the list of commitments they made in the Millennium Development Goals - with two of the eight goals explicitly calling for gender equality and better maternal health.