I’m not going to lie; it’s annoying to start one’s week with the news that no country in the entire world is set to achieve gender equality by 2030. Gender equality is not a ‘women’s issue’ – it’s good for men too | Julia Gillard Read moreThe bottom line is that gender inequality is a choice countries are making, not an inevitability. Only deep economic change will provide the foundations for gender equality – and perhaps that’s why those who are doing just fine, thank you very much, are dragging their heels. So to achieve equality, women must first be freed from the threat of this violence. There needs to be a concerted effort to assert women’s equality in the public sphere.

Source: The Guardian June 04, 2019 10:31 UTC