Reduced Inequalities

SDG 10 aims to reduce inequality within and among countries. Despite global economic growth, income inequality and disparities in access to resources and opportunities continue to affect marginalized and vulnerable populations.

How engineering can make it happen

Through sustainable infrastructure and new technologies and innovations, engineers and engineering create jobs and opportunities, enabling access to housing, food, health, and a decent living, all of which are crucial to reducing inequalities. Ensuring access to low-cost communications and mobile phones, information and education, medical diagnostics and treatment, especially in low-income countries, is also essential to addressing basic needs. Technologies that empower women to increase their participation in the workforce and that address chronic gender-based economic inequalities are being developed by engineers.