- 1) How Do We Address The Wage Gap? …
- 2) How Do We Address The Wage Gap For Female Minorities And Mothers? …
- 3) How Do We Address The Gender Gaps In STEM And Executive Careers? …
- 4) Should Women Have Access To Non-Prescription Birth Control?
RAW STREET INTERVIEW: RED PILL MGTOW FEMINISM DATING DOUBLE STANDARD MENS RIGHTS MRA MANOSPHERE
What Is the Most Important Challenge That Women Face Today?
“Being treated equitably, based on ability to contribute, based on skills. Being accepted as equal.” — Ellen Pao (above) When Pao sued her Silicon Valley employer for gender discrimination, she put the tech field’s treatment of women on trial. In 2015 a jury ruled against Pao, who by then led the social media site Reddit. Now she runs Project Include, a nonprofit she founded to foster inclusion and diversity in the tech world.
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Melinda Gates She co-founded the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which supports efforts to reduce inequality, poverty, and other global ills. “There isn’t a country on Earth where women have achieved true equality, and the barriers they face look different in different places. But no matter where you are in the world, understanding these barriers is the first step to dismantling them—and that requires making a concerted effort to gather better data about women and their lives. We don’t have reliable information about how many girls are going to school, how many women have the chance to earn an income, what their health and safety looks like, and whether they’re dying preventable deaths. And without that data, we can’t design effective policies or interventions to meet women’s needs. Data is power.”
Jane Goodall The primatologist, who did pioneering work as a National Geographic grantee, leads an institute that promotes conservation and education. “In so many developing countries, women have no freedom. In poor communities families tend to provide money to educate boys over girls. In many cultures women have no access to family planning, have numerous children, and are solely responsible for their care. For these reasons not only women but children—and thus our future—will suffer.”
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Tarana Burke A Brooklyn-based activist, she’s known as the founder of the #MeToo movement. “If you ask different people who are passionate about reproductive justice or economic justice, they would have different answers. Obviously, for me, sexual violence is one of the most important challenges facing women. But all of it comes under the umbrella of patriarchy and the ways that patriarchy affects women economically, physically, professionally.”
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Amani Ballour Leading a largely female staff, this young pediatrician ran an underground hospital caring for Syrians under siege. “Many women are still facing tyranny and control from the men in their society. This is a big challenge, but necessary for us to change.”
Laura Bush As First Lady of the United States during her husband’s two terms (2001-09), she was a literacy advocate. Through the George W. Bush presidential center, she now chairs a global initiative to improve women’s status. “My interest in Afghanistan, specifically in the lives of Afghan women, showed me that there are serious challenges in some parts of the world for women just to live safe lives. But I also think that in many parts of the world—and certainly in the United States—it’s a wonderful time for women. When George was president, I looked at the statistics of girls versus boys in the United States and realized that boys needed some attention too. We had focused so much on girls, and girls had become more successful than many boys in school. We expected more from boys in a way, without giving them the sort of nurturing that we did girls. So it’s important that, while we continue to support women at home and around the world, we pay attention to boys too.”
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Christiane Amanpour Chief international correspondent for CNN and a veteran war reporter, she has covered conflicts from Bosnia and Rwanda to Iraq and Afghanistan. “The most important challenge is still being considered second-class citizens, and the most important thing for us is to get men on our side, period. This has to be something that men help us with; it’s not a question of just swapping who’s dominant. We’re not looking for female dominance; we’re looking for equality and to level the playing field—and we can’t do that without men’s buy-in as well.”
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What Is the Greatest Hurdle You’ve Overcome?
“The disease to please. It happens when we are not raised to know our own value and our own worth.” — Oprah Winfrey (above) From a childhood marred by sexual abuse and poverty, she rose to career success, fame, and fulfillment—and uses her life story to encourage downtrodden women. Winfrey is a power player in broadcasting, publishing, and entertainment, and has a fortune estimated at $2.6 billion.
Christine Lagarde She’s the first woman to hold the following prestigious posts: chair of one of the world’s largest law firms, minister of finance in her native France, and two-term managing director of the International Monetary Fund. In 2019 she was tapped to direct the European Central Bank. “When I was just 16, my father passed away; that difficult time was one obstacle. And I think one obstacle is actually myself, you know. Over the course of time, the issue of confidence is one I had to struggle with. It’s probably closely related to the passing of my father and the sense of loss that you feel as a result. Then, whenever you face that same sense of loss, that lack of support or love or whatever, you have to build that confidence within yourself. I think love is an extraordinary engine for confidence, and when you lack some of it in an early stage, you have to constantly battle against it.”
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Taylorann Smith A self-described “queer woman of color,” Smith is getting a marine biology master’s degree at California State University, Northridge. She’s in National Geographic’s Women of Impact Community. “Being raised by a single mother with no involvement of my father was really challenging. I grew up watching my mom struggle to pay bills and to feed my sister and I, but we never went without her love. Poverty and homelessness were two experiences I wouldn’t wish on anyone, but they made me a stronger person. Growing up near Chicago, I never got to study the ocean like I dreamt of, until I received a scholarship to study at the Duke University Marine Lab for a semester. I conducted independent research, made connections, and grew as a scientist. I never thought someone like me could do all of those things!”
Tara Houska An Ojibwa of the Couchiching First Nation and a lawyer, Houska works for indigenous people’s rights, from Washington, D.C., to the sites of protests on tribal lands. “Not being consumed by experiences of trauma, assault, abuse, and other experiences that were difficult, especially in the formative years. On a personal level it’s enabled me to understand the importance of forgiveness, of moving forward and focusing on how we do better. How do we understand one another and create spaces for survivors? How do we do better as a society overall?”
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Jacinda Ardern Prime minister of New Zealand. She was the second world leader in modern history to give birth while in office (daughter Neve was born in June 2018). Nine months later Ardern responded to the massacre of 50 people at mosques in Christchurch by demanding gun law reform. “Myself. I am my own biggest hurdle, because no one will be a bigger critic of me than me. Whether or not you’re your own worst critic, whether or not you overemphasize your confidence deficit, I do think many women are much harsher on themselves and on their abilities. And I’m one of them.”
Alicia Garza A workers’ rights advocate, she is a co-creator of the #BlackLivesMatter movement. “Patriarchy is a huge one. Racism. And also—and I think this is a by-product of both of those other things—what people call impostor syndrome. Right? Where you can’t imagine why anyone would think that you could be a leader or consider you to be a leader.”
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Asha de Vos The marine biologist has become an expert on the blue whales found off the coast of her native Sri Lanka. “First of all, I was creating a sort of new field in Sri Lanka; marine conservation was pretty unheard of before I started. The other challenge is that marine conservation is very, very Western-centric: almost perceived as a field that belongs in the developed world. So I had to prove myself, not just as a woman, but as a locally grown woman.”
Roxane Gay A social critic and Purdue University faculty member, Gay is author of best-selling books including “Hunger,” “Bad Feminist,” and “Difficult Women.” “The biggest hurdles I’ve had to overcome have probably been racism and misogyny and fat phobias. Just dealing with living in a body that this world has tried to legislate or discriminate against in a lot of different ways throughout history. Sort of working against that while trying to just live and thrive is a challenge.”
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What you’re telling me isn’t new information to people working in war zones. Why hasn’t something been done? This is one of the great frustrations of this issue, as there is a great deal of development at the policy level. And yet, over and over again, when it comes down to specific conflicts, we see the hard work being pushed aside. Funding often isn’t forthcoming. And it’s hard – humanitarian organizations do amazing work in crisis situations, but it’s difficult to provide support for rape survivors in a chaotic setting. Then, there are the political issues. Governments are often the perpetrators of these crimes, and it’s tough to get them to hold each other accountable. You need look no further than the Security Council to see how politics prevent necessary action. Human Rights Watch has documented terrible rights violations, including mass rape, by the Sudanese government, and yet the Security Council has been unable to take decisive steps, not least because of the stalemate brought on by Sudan supporters, China, and Russia.
What is Human Rights Watch doing to change this? We’re highlighting the research we’ve done on these issues, old and new, to expose governments that fail to respect women’s rights. I’ll be advocating across UN bodies – the departments of peacekeeping and of political affairs, human rights, women’s affairs – and talking to governments, both those supportive of these issues and those less so. We’re working together with civil society groups from around the world, highlighting their local research at an international level. We’re holding advocacy meetings in Washington, DC, and in London, which has a leadership role on women, peace, and security in the Security Council. And we’re focusing on reaching leaders in various capitals, because none of this will work without country-level commitment and investment.
What should be done about this? Make sure women are involved in camp planning, and take into consideration women’s need for their physical safety. Escorts could accompany women as they gather fuel and firewood. And camps could have civilian liaisons that women could speak to when they feel unsafe – they’d see the early warning signs.
The resolution’s 15th anniversary is in October, and it’s going to be a big deal. There will be a massive new UN report and days of meetings and speeches. Throughout the month women from around the world will be in New York, trying to get policy makers not just to listen, but to take action. The danger is that, despite this hoopla, we will continue down the same path of great policies, but where Afghanistan’s women don’t have a say in the peace process and where the Sudanese government isn’t held responsible for attacks on women in Darfur.
Once you start asking this question, you can see just how wide the impact of conflict is on women and girls.
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FAQ
What are some questions about gender equality?
There is one fundamental difference between men and women: women can give birth. This leads to one of the biggest women’s issues of them all. The debate over reproductive rights circles around birth control and abortion.
What are some feminist questions?
- What is the difference between gender equity, gender equality and women’s empowerment? …
- Why is it important to take gender concerns into account in programme design and implementation? …
- What is gender mainstreaming? …
- Why is gender equality important?
What are three interesting facts about women’s rights?
- Do you call yourself a feminist? …
- What is a feminist? …
- Adichie says her brother is her favorite feminist. …
- Does the culture you grew up in have different expectations for boys and girls? …
- There are many negative views of feminism.
