This community gathering comes at a time
when issues of gender equality and identity are at the forefront of cultural discourse in the United States.
Not exact matches
Truth be told, I feel a bit out
of my depth
when I speak with «real feminists,» the kind who have actually studied feminist theory, who have read deeply and broadly about
issues related to
gender equality.
When I served as student body president at AU and began working on the
issues I had always cared about —
gender equity, racial justice, opportunity regardless
of economic background, and, yes, LGBTQ
equality — it became clear that making a difference in the world wouldn't diminish or dilute my own pain and incompleteness.
When questioned, Stone clouded the
issue further with a long and undecipherable reply: «negotiators had developed a paragraph specifically protecting
gender equality, indigenous peoples, food security, and the plight
of people «displaced» by climate change and actions to address climate change.
Private practice has its own set
of issues when it comes to
gender equality; the retention
of female associates has always been a challenge.
I wonder
when we will arrive; whenever I raise this
issue in conversation, I sense a weariness among those who have been working toward
gender equality for decades, and concurrently, a lack
of engagement with the cause among those more recently called to the Bar.