What if we looked at the United States’ persistent abysmal track record on gender equity as the potential smoking gun for its downward spiral? From our new 'Backsliding Democracies' series:
Protesters gather during a rally for women’s rights in Foley Square on Oct. 8, 2022 in New York City. And then, of course, there is our current standing on abortion. For the past two decades, as much of the world has expanded access, the United States is one of just
—joining El Salvador, Nicaragua and Poland—actively rolling back rights. Though most Americans support legal abortion, and even well before the Supreme Court wielded its sledgehammer in its majority ruling in , we’d witnessed then-unconstitutional laws glide through state legislatures only to be met with staggering indifference in the courts.
Bringing us back to the original proposition: Are we merely witnessing the byproducts of a democracy on the decline, or are each of the examples above the drivers of our current status? The 2020 report suggests that the trajectory of “de-democratization” is rarely analyzed initially through the distinctive lens of gender equity and there are insufficient efforts to systematically examine the current implications.
We plan to pursue this conversation, and we look forward to sharing a steady stream of content as we tackle these questions in the weeks and months to come. Care about U.S. democracy, women’s leadership and fair representation? We do too.
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