Very few people would publicly disagree that gender equality is a good thing. From governments to companies to celebrities, everyone is talking about it, and everyone claims to be working towards it. Not just because it makes good business sense or is a development imperative, but it really is the right thing to do. Yet, over 200 years after Mary Wollstoncraft wrote, ‘A Vindication of the Rights of Woman,’ gender equality remains an elusive goal. Why?
Perhaps because in companies, the people who make decisions are still doing so based on unconscious bias. Or governments are not providing sufficient cash to fund enough child-care centres so that mothers can go back to work. Or small businesses are unable to sustain the cost of an employee’s maternity leave. Or quite simply, in some cases, traditional views of gender roles clash with the concept of equality.
The purpose of this website is to look beyond the rhetoric and ask hard questions about how to achieve gender equality. We already know what needs to be done or what should be done. The purpose of this website is to ask questions such as: Is everyone just paying lip-service to gender equality without truly believing in it? Are the solutions suggested workable? What’s really happening behind the scenes? How do individuals, men and women, encounter and address gender inequality in their everyday lives?
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