with regard to capabilities sdg advocates for the elimination of gender disparities in education and training and sdg targets an end to violence discrimination and harmful practices such as early and forced marriage as well as reproductive health and rights finally women s agency is linked to the target of effective participation in decisionmaking in the economic and political realm in sdg macrolevel policies coupled with gender job segregation have made it difficult for women in many countries to convert their greater productivity related to higher educational attainment into improved livelihoods absolute and relative to men