Women´s Economic Empowerment `a Human Rights Issue´, Secretary-General Tells High-Level Panel, Saying Labour Force Excludes Half Those of Working Age
(World News Science)

Following are UN Secretary-General António Guterres` remarks at the High-Level Panel on Women`s Economic Empowerment, in New York today: Allow me before I read a few more orthodox remarks a more subversive reflection. I am very happy to participate in a meeting about empowerment because when we discuss gender equality, in my humble belief, there is essentially a question of power. It`s power at all levels in a male-dominated world where there is still a male-dominated culture - power in family relations, power in society, power in the economy, power in politics. To a large extent there is a serious question of power. The economy is probably the area where...