Women's Leadership in Accelerating Sustainable Development : Care Based Approach for Transformative Change

Sustainable development is a worldwide challenge, but its progress is excruciatingly slow. In order to accelerate our efforts it is essential to realize that sustainable developments require multidimensional effort and effective management, which will be impossible until we achieve gender equality. It's time to prioritize gender equality and women’s empowerment, which helps us to move faster and more confidently toward the goals and sub-goals of sustainable development (SDGs). In order to make meaningful changes women must occupy productive and decision-making roles. They possess exceptional capabilities, skills, talents, and abilities including an effective attitude, social conscience and caring nature, and management skills. These qualities help them to recognize opportunities, tackle risks and make the right decisions that contribute to the SDGs while also reducing the gender inequality gap, child mortality, unemployment, violence, etc. For that, this paper claims that the potential, care, empathy and effectiveness of women as leaders are needed and should be recognized globally in terms of leadership, decision-making positions, and productivity, as a result, we move faster and more confidently toward fulfilling of Sustainable development goals.