Women’s Inequality

From the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, Armine Yalnizyan on economic inequality and women’s inequality:

Let me be clear. The women’s agenda is the equality agenda, in all its aspects.

It is the fight for good jobs, enough income, and affordable basics like housing, child care, health and education. It is the struggle for freedom from violence. It is the quest for the freedom to participate. It is the fight against exploitation, domination, isolation and silencing. It is the desire to become the fullest person we can be; to join, without barriers, in all aspects of human enterprise – social, economic, political and cultural. Growing inequality works its way into all these dimensions of human experience. Closing the gap means dealing with all these dimensions of inequality. 

Because it’s official – inequality is not going away. In fact it’s getting worse, and precisely at a time when it should be getting better. 

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