A study on youth awareness towards the practice of sustainable development Sub-Goal 5 (Gender Equality) in responding to women discrimination / Sofia Izzati Amran and Ahmad Qaid Hasnan

In 2015, the United Nations initiated the Sustainable development goals (SDGs) to address the global changes while ensuring better and sustainable actions for the future. Among Asian countries, Malaysia has also made an effort to integrate the SDGs into its national development plan. The main objective of this study is to examine the level of Youth Awareness towards the practice of Sustainable Development Sub-Goal 5 (Gender Equality) in responding to women discrimination, to study the relationship between level of knowledge, societal attitude and accessibility of information and to determine the main determinant of the practice of Sustainable Development Sub-Goal 5 (Gender Equality) in responding to women discrimination. A sample of 165 respondents among youth in Malaysia which between 18 to 39 years old were being given a set of questionnaires each in collecting primary data. The analysis that were being used in this study are Descriptive Statistics, Pearson Correlations Coefficient and Multiple Linear Analysis to study the independent variables (level of knowledge, societal attitude and accessibility of information). Furthermore, all the independent variables have a positive significant relationship with practice of Sustainable Development Sub-Goal 5 (Gender Equality). The findings also indicate that, the predictor variables that contributed the highest variation of the practice of Sustainable Development Sub-Goal 5 (Gender Equality) is societal attitude. The discussion of the findings, implications of study, limitations and recommendation for future research are being discussed in the last chapter of the study.