Improving access and affordability in childcare is not an easy challenge – and of itself will not solve all gender equality issues. My analysis is that in order to ensure women’s rights and equality in Afghanistan, and generally all around the world, we need to involve women in the production process, empowering women economically. In the battle for gender equality I’d like to see the soaps embrace some new careers for their characters – particularly the female ones. However, one of the seven core objectives of the Women’s Equality Party – equal parenting and caregiving – is capable on its own of creating huge change. Catherine Mayer is the co-founder of the Women’s Equality Party and author of Attack of the Fifty Foot Women: How Gender Equality Can Save the World!

Source: The Guardian March 05, 2017 00:00 UTC