Christians of other ecclesiastical backgrounds have worked tirelessly to establish gender equality in their contexts.
I wonder, how can we establish gender equality around the world when even the UN is unable achieve it?
In defining "principles of equality between women and men," its 30 clauses seek to establish gender equality at all social, economic and political levels.
In its exhaustive analysis of how women have fared over the past two decades, U.N. Women outlined how progress has been "uneven" and what it will take to establish gender equality.
In addition to your company's tremendous history of leadership in establishing gender and social equality in its workforce, your appointment as CEO continued to demonstrate IBM as a merit-led corporation.
"Given that it's already 70 years since the Constitution was established, where gender equality is advocated, I have to say it is too late," said Mayumi Taniguchi, a law professor and the founder and chairwoman of All Japan Obachan Party, a women's advocacy group, referring to the country's constitutional prohibitions against discrimination by gender.
This might be difficult and there may be reluctance from opponents but it is useful to frame the debate to establish that gender equality is not a privilege, it is a right.
To get past this, we need to establish real, functional gender equality in the workplace.
Germany has established a high level of gender equality, promotes disability rights, and is legally and socially tolerant towards homosexuals.
Set up as part of a post-Beijing UN Women's Conference initiative to establish state machineries to promote gender equality, the NCW has always struggled with political interference.
