In the last six years, the so-called “backlash” against women’s rights has accelerated. MsReads via pass_blue
of 32 countries revealing that 55 percent of male and 41 percent of female respondents believe that we have gone “so far in promoting women’s equality that we are discriminating against men.” Perennially depressing, this year’s reports so far hit home harder due to the arrival of my third daughter.
Like her sisters, she is fortunate to have immense privilege. Her birth was testament to that. Surrounded by health professionals and all the equipment we might possibly need, our experience was a far cry from that of, Ukrainian women laboring in bunkers and the Tamil lady from my homeland, Sri Lanka, who chose a roadside C-section to give her and her baby the best chance of surviving bombs and atrocities in 2009. But even my children’s privilege cannot shield them from the risks they face as girls — and brown ones at that. My first daughter was born when President Trump’s inauguration started the chain of events that led to some 22 million women and girls now living in American states where abortion is. My second daughter emerged during the Covid-19 lockdown, when men seemed at last to realize that care is actually work , only to go back to business as usual. Meanwhile, women and girls continue to suffer the consequences
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