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Efforts to fight inequality[edit]
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See also: Gender inequality

In 2010, the European Union opened the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) in Vilnius, Lithuania to promote gender equality and to fight sex discrimination. In 2015 the EU published the Gender Action Plan 2016–2020.

Gender equality is part of the national curriculum in Great Britain and many other European countries. By presidential decree, the Republic of Kazakhstan created a Strategy for Gender Equality 2006–2016 to chart the subsequent decade of gender equality efforts. Personal, Social and Health Education, religious studies and Language acquisition curricula tend to address gender equality issues as a very serious topic for discussion and analysis of its effect in society.

A large and growing body of research has shown how gender inequality undermines health and development. To overcome gender inequality the United Nations Population Fund states that, "Women's empowerment and gender equality requires strategic interventions at all levels of programming and policy-making. These levels include reproductive health, economic empowerment, educational empowerment and political empowerment."

UNFPA says that "research has also demonstrated how working with men and boys as well as women and girls to promote gender equality contributes to achieving health and development outcomes."

The efforts to close the gender pay gap has helped to flight gender inequality in the workplace. The Equality Act 2010 established the principle of transparency and the legal duties needed for work organization with 250 employers or more. This Act has educated people in efforts to decrease the gender pay gap.

Economic empowerment of women[edit]
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Main articles: Women in the workforce and Female economic activity Gender pay gap in average gross hourly earnings in the EU member states, according to Eurostat2014.[failed verification]

The Equality Act 2010 was the start of a change which helped decrease the severity of the gender pay gap in many ways. Firstly, the Equality act 2010 aided the establishment of the principle of transparency. It has also recognized the legal duties needed for work organizations with 250 employers or more as well as educating people in this matter.

In 2016, The World Economic Forum released data which showed only 59% of the gender pay gap in economic opportunities has been closed around the world. It will take around another 170 year to close completely if this rate continues.

Promoting gender equality is seen as an encouragement to greater economic prosperity.Female economic activity is a common measure of gender equality in an economy.

Gender discrimination often results in women obtaining low-wage jobs and being disproportionately affected by poverty, discrimination and exploitation. A growing body of research documents what works to economically empower women, from providing access to formal financial services to training on agricultural and business management practices, though more research is needed across a variety of contexts to confirm the effectiveness of these interventions.

Gender biases also exist in product and service provision. The term "Women's Tax", also known as "Pink Tax", refers to gendered pricing in which products or services marketed to women are more expensive than similar products marketed to men. For example, the difference in price for haircuts between men and women. Gender-based price discrimination involves companies selling almost identical units of the same product or service at comparatively different prices, as determined by the target market. Studies have found that women pay about $1,400 a year more than men due to gendered discriminatory pricing. Although the "pink tax" of different goods and services is not uniform, overall women pay more for commodities that result in visual evidence of feminine body image.