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Gender inequality isn’t a ‘women’s issue’
Wednesday, July 6th, 2011
July 5, 2011
… Women’s World participants are seeking to address: problems such as poverty, food insecurity and homelessness, pornography, sex trafficking and war rape, to name just a few. Because at root, these are all challenges – or crimes – of equality. They are symptoms of the bigger issue: the ongoing disenfranchisement of a shocking percentage of the world’s women. And every government that’s not investing significant resources in righting that wrong is negligent, short-sighted and failing to nurture its nation’s true capacity.
Tags: participation, rights, standard of living, women
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Matter. Of. Fact. If only government decisions were …
Monday, September 13th, 2010
Sep 13, 2010
Is it too much to expect my governments – supported by one of the best-educated and most-respected civil services in the world (not to mention my tax dollars) – to rely on reputable research when making major spending and policy decisions on my behalf? I don’t think so… But right now I’m wondering: What’s the point of funding such research and supporting institutes of higher learning if the knowledge they produce is repeatedly disregarded?
Tags: ideology, standard of living
Posted in Governance Debates, Governance Policy Context | No Comments »
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