Equality between men and women not before "300 years", deplores the UN
United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres lamented on Monday March 6 that “equality” between women and men in the world is an increasingly distant goal, achieved at best “in 300 years”.
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United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres deplored on Monday March 6 that “
equality
” between women and men in the world is an increasingly distant goal, achieved at best “
in 300 years
”.
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Gender equality is getting further and further away.
At the current rate, (the organization) UN Women sets it at 300 years from now
,” Mr. Guterres denounced in a speech at the opening of two weeks of debates in New York of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW). ) and ahead of International Women's Day on March 8.
In the amphitheater of the General Assembly, the head of the UN considered that the "
rights of women were abused, threatened, violated throughout the world
" and that "
the progress made for decades was disappearing before our eyes
".
He took the example of
Afghanistan
, where the Taliban regained power in August 2021 and where "
women and girls have been erased from public life
".
He did not name other countries, but in "
many places women's sexual reproductive rights are being rolled back and girls who go to school are at risk of being abducted and assaulted
."
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Mr. Guterres did not mention
Iran
, expelled on December 14 with “immediate” effect from the CSW by a vote of the United Nations Economic and Social Council (Ecosoc), at the instigation of the United States, because repression of a revolt led since September by women.
#CSW67 opened today to start its work to make the future digital and equitable for girls & women.
The pace of digital change demands that we contribute a global normative framework that ensures we harness technology towards the achievement of gender equality.
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— UN Women (@UN_Women) March 6, 2023
Science and technology pointed out
"
Centuries of patriarchy, discrimination and painful stereotypes have created a gender gap in science and technology
", sectors in which women represent only "
3% of Nobel laureates
", a-t- he took as an example.
He paid tribute to the
French researchers
"
Emmanuelle Charpentier and American Jennifer Doudna who were historically the first team of women to win a Nobel Prize in science three years ago
", in chemistry in 2020. "
Teams of men the have won 172 times
,” Mr. Guterres lamented.
For this 67th session of the CSW, the President of the Swiss Confederation Alain Berset traveled to New York and admitted to the General Assembly that women were "still under-represented
in scientific fields
" in his country, counting "
only (for) 37% of graduates in these branches
", with a goal of equality in 2030.
For her part, Marlène Schiappa, French Secretary of State for the Social and Solidarity Economy and Associative Life, and former Secretary of State for Gender Equality, also proclaimed from the UN that "
together, we have the power to bring out female and feminist leaders through digital
”.
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(with
AFP
)
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