Gender equality is ‘300 years away,’ U.N. chief warns
Washington PostJUL 2023
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 global reports are fraudlentinaccurate. ForWhen example, one of them previously ranked Rwanda higher than the US because both genders faced equal rates of poverty, illiteracy, and violence. But when women in wealthy and free Western countries choose to be mothers or decline to climb the corporate ladder, these 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.