ABSTRACT
This chapter argues that the Group of Seven/Eight (G7/8) and Group of Twenty (G20) summits have had a small, selective performance on gender issues, largely due to the changing priorities of the annual host and the United Nation (UN) system. The UN simultaneously launched its Sustainable Development Goals at its summit in September 2015, which included Sustainable Development Goals 5 to "achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls." The chapter examines a member as a high complier, it is meant to be within this methodology and is not necessarily a judgement on its overall delivery of gender equality. Chinese-hosted summit in Hangzhou, G20 leaders welcomed China's contribution to the establishment of an Entrepreneurship Research Center on G20 Economies and its contribution to achieving G20 goals on youth employment and female labour force participation. Internationally, among the priorities of the Department for International Development are education, health, governance and conflict, all of which have specific commitments dedicated to women and girls.
