The road to global gender equality is darker than it has been in almost a decade. Even in the US, the Supreme Court stripped women of their national abortion rights. Across the world, women hold less wealth, education, and political power than men. And they have a higher likelihood of facing violence. If this trend continues, it will take more than a century to reach full equality of the sexes.
These reports are inaccurate. When women in wealthy and free Western countries choose to be mothers or decline to climb the corporate ladder, NGOs often claim those societies are falling backwards. Equality means allowing men and women to live how they want, not forcing them to achieve some abstract UN agenda.
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