This has been put into practice most recently by the Global Goals initiative that aimed to reach seven billion people – the world's population - in seven days, spreading the message of 17 ambitious targets set by the United Nations - from ending extreme poverty through to securing gender equality.
This view assumes that women and men, qua women and men, are bearers of various essential and accidental attributes where the former secure gendered persons' persistence through time as so gendered.
Hence, the results suggest that policies favoring women, such as encouraging their labor force participation, subsidizing female education and securing more gender equal inheritance should be considered as alternative instruments for the prevention of polygyny.
Otherwise, Corbyn could struggle to secure a decent gender balance on his front bench.
Disagreements, however, remained on how to secure representation by gender and ethnic and religious backgrounds, and how to establish trust for newer, little-known candidates.
Our long history of struggle from fighting for independence through the Civil War and the Civil Rights movement to secure equal rights for race, gender and gender preference has been to provide equal access to all and equal treatment under the law.
What single, limiting color is marketed to boys and men that they cling to for dear life, that they use to advertise and feel secure about their own gender, that marketers peddle to them in every aspect of their lives, and that internet commenters defend to the bitter end?
In 2016, the Pakistani government passed a set of legislations which, among other things, gives transgender people the right to have an ID that defines them as a third gender and secures them the right to vote, but in practical terms, acceptance by the more conservative parts of the population is still a long way off.
Children continue to be at the heart of these goals, from fighting hunger and extreme poverty, child and maternal mortality, gender inequality, securing primary education for all, stopping the spread of HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases and protecting the environment while building global partnerships for development.
I will be casting my vote next year based on which party has the best policies, not which leader has secured the most gender-balanced photo op.
