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Gender equality - Goal 5

Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls

Indicator 5.a.2: Whether or not the city has the legal framework (including customary law) that guarantees women’s equal rights to land ownership and/or control

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Revised indicator: Revised to local context from original text: “Proportion of countries where the legal framework (including customary law) guarantees women’s equal rights to land ownership and/or control.”

Non-Statistical Indicator

Relevant Policies

The right to property is protected in the United States by the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Since 1849, California’s constitution has protected women’s rights not only to property acquired prior to marriage but to property acquired independently after marriage.

This table provides metadata for the actual indicator available from City of Los Angeles statistics closest to the corresponding global SDG indicator. Please note that even when the global SDG indicator is fully available from Angeleno statistics, this table should be consulted for information on national methodology and other Angeleno-specific metadata information.

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United States of America
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WCCD/ISO 37120 Indicators on City Data Alignment
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Data last updated 2021-11-24: see changes on GitHub opens in a new window
Metadata last updated 2021-11-24: see changes on GitHub opens in a new window
Tags Revised, Non-Statistical

This table provides information on metadata for SDG indicators as defined by the UN Statistical Commission. Complete global metadata is provided by the UN Statistics Division.

Indicator name

Proportion of countries where the legal framework (including customary law) guarantees women’s equal rights to land ownership and/or control
Indicator number

5.a.2
Target name

Undertake reforms to give women equal rights to economic resources, as well as access to ownership and control over land and other forms of property, financial services, inheritance and natural resources, in accordance with national laws
Target number

5.a
Global indicator description
UN designated tier

2
UN custodian agency

FAO,World Bank, UN Women
Link to UN metadata United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Metadata (pdf 634kB) opens in a new window
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Geographical coverage

United States of America
Link to data source United States Constitution (Amendment V) opens in a new window
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