Editorial: Towards 2030: sustainable development goal 5: gender equality. A sociological perspective

GREGIS ESTIVALET, ANELISE; DVOSKIN, GABRIEL

Frontiers in Sociology

Frontiers in Sociology

Lugar: Lausana; Año: 2023 vol. 8

Historically, patriarchal systems have culturally emphasized the fragility and inferiorityof women. Women were responsible for all household chores, and, in some cases, there wererestrictions on their access to public spaces. Marginalized women were more vulnerable todomestic violence and private homes often constituted a space of deprivation – of public life,rights, and power. In the 1960s, women’s movements began to develop from the constructionof a collective female identity that gave them extraordinary importance in conjugating therelationship between the individual and the collective, between the public and the private.Since then, there has been a greater concern with the challenge of injustice, inequality, andnon-recognition. By constituting women as the target of policies and understanding theirperformance as a differential in everyday relationships, the position of women in a situationof domination becomes public. There have been many achievements in recent decades, butprogress is still needed in many instances.