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According to the Sustainable Development Goals set by the United Nations(2015), equality is a fundamental human right and crucial for a prosperous and sustainable world. Improving both the inclusion of all kinds of people and gender equity could add significantly to economic development and increase competitiveness, innovation, and growth. These ideas pose a challenge to educational bodies and work-life to take seriously their economic and social responsibility to advance inclusion and gender equity. Although workplaces and educational institutions may intend to be inclusive and fair, biases and inequality often creep into their practices and decision-making. One reason for this may be that the benefits that diversity and social inclusion can bring to performance are not properly recognised. However, in agreement with the Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen, it can be said that taking into consideration diversity and advancing inclusion and gender equity in education and work-life is the moral imperative. Another Nobel Laureate, Muhammad Yunnus, stresses how crucial it is for gender equality that women have the opportunity to become economically independent.