By Anna Rawhiti-Connell
Advice – Pleased International Women’s Day, the unrelenting sameness of rendering it feel increasingly more like Groundhog Day every year.
The sex pay space is filled with complexities yet it eventually ends up being presented as just one, simple statistic. Picture: RNZ / Eva Corlett
This current year’s theme is ‘Creating A equal and enabled World’. This feels like a utopia let me are now living in, but inaddition it seems like the final 44 Overseas Women’s themes day. ‘Insert hashtag’, ‘Insert custom emoji’.
The afternoon is filled with good motives but rather than being ‘an unmissable chance to mobilise action that is global attain sex equality and individual legal rights of all of the females and girls’, it really is increasingly a depressing annual reminder of simply how much has not changed for females.
In a bid to mobilise everybody else beneath the exact exact same ‘safe for work’ advertising, Global Women’s Day homogenises women as well as the problems they face. (more…)
