in some countries girls are not able to inherit property while in others women are required by law to obey their husbands their voices stifled and their agency eroded the recognition of families as a contradictory space for women and girls is at the heart of this report therefore the urgent challenge for policymakers activists and people in all walks of life is to transform families into a home for equality and justice a place where women and girls can exercise voice and agency and where they have economic security and physical safety meeting sdg gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls for example demands the elimination of violence and an end to harmful practices ensuring women have access to economic resources including through equal inheritance rights and equality in family laws and promoting shared responsibility for the provision of unpaid care and domestic work which falls disproportionately on womens shoulders