'For every year of secondary school a girl receives, her future earnings go up by 10-20%.' Plus everything else we learned at the Women Deliver summit
4. In 2015, all United Nations member states adopted 17 Sustainable Development Goals to achieve by 2030 in areas such as education, climate, and gender equality. A progressin the world is on track to achieve its goals for gender equality by 2030.Sophie Gregoire Trudeau
: “For those who know me already, you know I like to keep things real and for those who don’t, you’ll see it right away. By this time with what my husband does as a job—prime minister—the whole world knows that he’s a feminist. But let’s keep it real and let’s make it clear. He married a feminist, who made sure1. Getting men actively involved with the fight for gender equality is imperative
At a panel on post-#MeToo work environments, the most thought-provoking statements came from the sole male on the panel: Wade Davis. The NFL player turned feminist gender consultant brought a valuable perspective to the discussion that’s often missing when we talk about the pathway to equality, without which success is impossible. We need men in the fight with us, to meet us halfway. One of the things men need to do, says Davis, is stop thinking of themselves as allies.
According to Davis, the necessary re-education of men, who have been conditioned to view women as objects, involves real emotional labour . “How do we push men to own the fact that some part of us has been complicit in what you all are experiencing? Whether we’ve been an actor, and most of us have, or whether we’ve been complicit in our silence, and most of us have. But to own that is really, really hard and takes a lot of emotional labour, which we haven’t been taught to do.
Further on the topic of the categorization of the crimes against indigenous women and girls as genocide, Chief Commissioner of the MMIWG National Inquiry, Marion Buller adds, “It’s not the type of genocide one associates with the Holocaust or Rwanda or other mass killings, but a genocide created by generations of governments that deliberately underfunded education, health services and housing, forcibly removed children from their families and their communities and often those children were...
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