Posted on 06/30/2021 12:34:08 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
The U.N.-sponsored global gathering for gender equality generated about $40 billion in pledges towards aiding women and girls on Wednesday, partly fueled by a significant $2.1 billion contribution from Bill and Melinda Gates’ namesake foundation.
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation said it will spend the money in the next five years on health and family planning programs, economic empowerment projects and other initiatives.
The $40 billion was pledged by various stakeholders, UN Women said, calling the commitments the “largest-ever collective infusion of resources into global gender equality.” Some of the pledges come from other foundations, including the Ford Foundation, which said on Wednesday it will spend $420 million in the next five years on gender equality initiatives. Separately, the George Soros-founded Open Society Foundations and PayPal have each pledged more than $100 million.
Jeannie Sager, the director of the Women’s Philanthropy Institute at Indiana University, says the litany of announcements promise greater action for gender equality, and adds to the collective urgency the forum has championed on the issue.
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How many beeelyuns of dollars will it take to help women back their car into a parking spot as well as privileged men? LOL
The way things are going, there won’t be any gender to make equal.
I wonder what they’re really using it for. Also, less money to divide up in the divorce.
How ridiculous. Money could better be used for cancer research, space exploration, new technology. This is libtard efforts to entice gullible idiots to focus inward on ridiculous nonsense.
Family planning? In other words abortion. What a bunch of evil bastards. And they will completely ignore Islam’s horrendous treatment of women.
I’m sure the Muslim’s will not embrace any more than two genders and I’d agrree with them.
Please clarify how much of that will go to ensuring that fathers will be treated as parents instead of being treated as paychecks.
Sorry, you can’t fight for gender equality until you’ve achieved racial equality.
BLM said so.
Gates...what wonderful, helpful people....NOT!
But not a word will be spoken about the misogyny in Islam.
elite foundations = loci of subversion
more welfare just for women
What about Selective Service? Imagine telling 17 year old girls “Next year you have to go to the post office....and some day you may have to fight for your country...on the name of gender equity...”
What about the third gender?
/Sarcasm
No amount of money can keep women from being pregnant or having debilitating monthly periods that force them to miss productive hours/days at work
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