Gender Equality Vital For World To Fulfill Potential: UN Chief Ban Ki-moon
“We know that when there is gender equality, girls and boys will go to school and they will prosper,” she said. “We know that when there is gender equality there will be equal pay and poverty will be reduced. We know that when there is gender equality violence will come down and women will be able to live without being violated. We also know that where there is gender equality, our economies will grow, our development will be for everybody, because everybody will be participating.
Joining Ban and Mlambo-Ngcuka on the platform were several other notables, including Liberian peace activist Leymah Gbowee and British actor Paul Bettany. Gbowee painted a vivid metaphor to describe the situation that persists in a world without gender quality, saying that by excluding the unique skills of women, global society was functioning “with one eye covered” and that was hampering its progress.
“Imagine trying to see the beauty of New York with one eye covered. It’s time for us to uncover the other eye, so that our world can function better. Gender equality all the way! Women’s empowerment all the way,” she said.
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