Sunday, 2 March 2014

What are the priorities in MY World?

Throughout last summer and into the autumn, I was regulrly asking blog readers and Facebook followers to complete the MY World survey. This survey seeks to crowd-source the world's priorities for an international development agenda to come in effect after 2015, and many of you voted (if you didn't, you still can add your views here).

I recently discovered that they've made the data that they've colelcted so far explorable on their website. If you head to this page, you can see how different people voted based on age groups, gender, levels of education and country. It's interesting to see where the different priorities have been placed. For instance, 'equality between women and men' is ranked #12 for men globally, but is up at #8 for women globally. Narrow down the filters further and this priority reaches #4 for women aged 16-30 in the UK and #3 for girls aged 15 and under here.

Priorities for a global develoment agenda voted for by young women (16-30) in the UK.
In contrast, gender equality comes in at #10 for nearly all boys and men in the UK (rising one place to #9 for the 46-60 year olds). Their other priorities come in a very similar order.
Gender equality will not become a reality in the UK when it is mostly girls and women who are the ones calling for it. How do we make this issue a priority for boys and men as well?

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