Abstract
This study is in line with sustainable development goals and the focused area is South Asia where six out of eight countries are not even in top hundred countries with respect to gender equality. So, objective of this paper is to empirically investigate the relationship among culture and gender equality for South Asian countries. Independent variables are urban population growth, mobile subscription per 100, GDP per capita and to measure the culture LFPR is used as a proxy. Dependent variable is gender equality to measure this variable study uses seats held by women in national parliament. Data period for this study is 1990- 2014 and data is collected from WDI and ILO. Fixed effect model is used for estimation and this model is selected on the basis of Hausman specification test. Results show that GDP per capita and urban population has negative and significant relationship with gender equality. While, mobile phone subscription and culture has positive and statistically significant relationship with dependent variable. So, on the basis of results, study suggested that developing countries should invest in ICT and income generation projects for sustainable development by providing equal opportunities for both male and female.