The United Nations, though, still seems to be a man’s world. But advocates of gender equity both in and out of the United Nations are bewildered. Irina Bokova, a Bulgarian diplomat and the head of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, Unesco, is widely described as pro-Russian. The executive director of the United Nations gender equality agency, known as U.N. Women, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, said there were “superbly qualified women” running for the job. The United Nations set that goal for itself 20 years ago, and is nowhere close to meeting it.

Source: New York Times September 09, 2016 19:51 UTC