As we look at the three candidates left standing in the race for the 2020 White House— three old, white guys: Bernie, Biden and Trump— a harsh reality comes to light.
The UN Development Programme , which published the report on March 5, is calling on governments to introduce legislation that addresses ingrained prejudice. Joanne Sandler, former Deputy Executive Director of the United Nations Development Fund for Women and Senior Associate of Gender at Work, points to the huge efforts on the part of women’s rights and gender equality advocates over several decades to get laws, policies and mandates on the books.
“Despite these efforts, this report clearly states that patriarchy is alive and well, leaving gender inequality entrenched in our public and private lives,” Sandler explains. for women in political and economic leadership, she says the bigger task is to challenge what the authors of the UN report call the “invisible power of norms.”
“These ‘norms’ are the structural imbalances that enable gender inequality to continue unabated,” Sandler explains. “They include things like paying men more than women for the same work, or expectations that women and girls will do unpaid domestic work.” “Until we address the inequities in the institutional architecture of our countries – from who provides care to what kind of jobs get valued — the message is loud and clear that the kinds of roles that women tend to play have a vastly lower value than those that men play. That needs to change,” she states.“Whether that’s within workplaces or communities, or at national or transnational level, feminist organizing works,” Sandler maintains.
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