Posted on 03/05/2015 9:42:55 PM PST by Citizen Zed
UNITED NATIONS - (AP) -- The head of the U.N. agency promoting equality for women is lamenting that a girl born today will be an 81-year-old grandmother before she has the same chance as a man to be CEO of a company -- and she will have to wait until she's 50-years-old to have an equal chance to lead a country.
Twenty years after 189 countries adopted a blueprint to achieve equality for women, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka said in an interview with The Associated Press that not a single country has reached gender parity and equality.
The executive director of UN Women spoke ahead of International Women's Day on Friday and next week's meeting of the Commission on the Status of Women. The commission will review the 150-page platform for action to achieve equality that was adopted at the groundbreaking U.N. women's conference in Beijing in 1995. Then-U.S. first lady Hillary Clinton inspired delegates and women worldwide when she declared in a keynote speech: "Human rights are women's rights and women's rights are human rights."
Although there has been progress since Beijing, especially in women's health and girls' education, Mlambo-Ngcuka said, there are fewer than 20 female heads of state and government, and the number of women lawmakers has increased from 11 percent to just 22 percent in the last two decades.
"We just don't have critical mass to say that post-Beijing women have reached a tipping point in their representation," she said.
She said the under-representation of women in decision-making and violence against women are "global phenomena," a result of male domination in the world that needs to change if women are ever to be truly equal.
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Amazons
Or ever will, because then they’d lose their cushy, high-paying jobs. Just like the global warming and racism bureaucrats and other strap hangers.
Shouldn’t the UN Women be focused on how women are treated and abused in Islam?
50 years to be head of a country?
How about ten years until they're wearing full burkhas and aren't allowed to drive or go out in public!
That anyone should believe otherwise requires a major suspension of disbelief and anyone who truly believes in full gender equality is a total moron.
What is obtainable is full equality of opportunity for both genders and this has been obtained in most Western countries.
In fact, in most Western nations, women have the advantage over men in gender opportunity due to affirmative action laws and programs which give them greater opportunity than men in many fields due to their gender.
Most men have little or no interest in assuming traditionally female gender roles so it is doubtful full gender equality will ever be realized.
99.99% of men don’t become CEOs or run a country. What is this sammich maker on about?
Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka needs to apologize to the world for “Women’s Privilege”...
Does that tell you anything, madam?
If only a handful failed, it would mean that your policy is strong, but a few stragglers didn't quite make the grade.
If about half failed, maybe it could be credited to eeeeeevil right-wingers controlling many nations.
But when it is EVERY nation and culture and region and race on earth, then maybe, juuuuuust maybe, your assumptions about the genders might be a little off, no?
Women have a lot of catching up to do. Educationally and in terms of character and self-esteem (the real thing, not the “pride” thing). You can’t just throw them into a CEO job or a computer-engineering job, except for the relative few who have managed to qualify. I think it is a minor miracle that we now have women in these positions. Maybe because I am getting on in years, I remember what it was like in the past. Things take time. Wishing them to be a certain way does not instantly make them that way.
Shouldnt they start on the bottom of the list and work their way up. That way they will leave the us alone for the next 500 years....
Those people aren't generally going to continue on to be CFO, CEO, or a head of state, although in countries more dominated by pep-rally politics than the perceived need for survival anything is possible.
The ones who aren't qualified for the job other than by an accident of genetics had better either have a LOT of competent backup, or they will hurt the company or country they supposedly run.
Had the normal progression of employees and statespersons been left untainted by gender/race politics, there is a good chance the most competent of both groups would have risen to the top by now in greater numbers, partly because all would be well aware no one was going to get a pass, and that no one was there who hadn't paid their dues.
When you are worrying about gender equality, you are no longer worrying about productivity! How about trying productivity instead of equality? Might get better results!
Perhaps... just possibly... that tells you something about your “gender equality”?
Many people, mostly leftist activists, cannot envision the larger picture. Men still do the most dangerous jobs and most often the most physically taxing. And women, and everyone else, benefits from that. That is something leftist flacks simply don't understand or will not understand for ideological purposes.
They’ll have to achieve their goal of getting rid of child birth and motherhood before women become “equal” with men.
Boys of today are going to be the biggest misogynists of all time.
My sisters think the world is tilted against females, yet they've got a lot more money than I do (they worked for one of those evil corporations) and live better lives than the kings and queens of yore. But being liberals, they are by definition obtuse, obdurate, obstinate, obverse, and many times obnoxious.
In my field, the situation was reversed. There are many women and always were, but there were always a few men. Now I think there are more men because of the hard economic times and because more men are willing to take the lower-paying and more traditionally woman-oriented jobs. When they came in, they demanded and got higher salaries than ours, admitted to us privately by our department head. In a sense, the department head made the right decision, because if a guy was the best-suited person for the job and he demanded more money, it was often the right choice to hire him.
Women even had the department-head jobs. But not the CEO until very recently with a very few exceptions.
Where the real discrimination that you are talking about occurs is in the area of woman-run and -owned small businesses. Some places require that a certain quota of woman-owned businesses are employed by the city or state. I know it was or is true in NYC and I think Chicago is the same. That is especially wrong because it affects the taxpayer, who deserves to get the best and lowest-cost service that the city or state can buy, without special considerations coming into it.
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