Tuesday, 8 March 2016

What does International Women’s Day mean for the future of gender equality? (Julia Gillard, Brookings)

Girls play a clapping game during a weekly education session about breast ironing and rape by survivor of breast ironing Julie Ndjessa at Ndjessa's family home in Douala, Cameroon, November 3, 2013.

While the world has made great strides toward gender equality over the last several decades, major disparities between men and women still exist. And women, from all walks of life, still face disadvantages. In the United States, we are yet to see a female president, and among the United Kingdom, Germany, and Australia, the tally remains at one.

http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/education-plus-development/posts/2016/03/07-international-womens-day-gender-equality-gillard

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