Water inequality: As taps run dry, Mexican drought fuels anger over access
DIANA BAPTISTA, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on how strict rationing has left millions of Monterrey residents without tap water for hours or days at a time, fuelling long-standing anger over water concessions that favour big companies…
Measuring equality
I’m a huge believer in equality between the sexes – in the beginning God created us male and female in His image; as Jesus and the apostles declared – females are coheirs and co-workers in the Kingdom. PICTURE: Eddi Aguirre/Unsplash One of the mistakes with our modern attempts at equality is that we determine equality based on […]
Marriage – equal?
I’ve been happily married for 25 years this year. What have I learnt that I can share with you? PICTURE: Ryan Franco/Unsplash You have to marry your equal. Your best friend. And you have to see them as that. Now, of course you’re not actually equal. You’re taller, she’s smarter. You’re stronger, she’s more caring. […]
Coronavirus seen threatening global goals to end poverty, inequality
New York City, USThomson Reuters Foundation Ambitious global goals set out by the United Nations to end poverty and inequality are under threat from the coronavirus pandemic, even as they are most needed, experts have warned. A 2030 deadline to meet the UN’s development goals is at risk as economies suffer in the fight against […]
Essay: Five ways coronavirus lockdowns increase inequality
In an article first published on The Conversation, UK social scientist ISAAC T TABNER, writing in the UK context, looks at how coronavirus outbreak could result in greater inequality…
Equality for 2.1 billion women and girls under threat as progress stalls
New York City, USThomson Reuters Foundation More than two billion women and girls around the world face missing out on the advantages of their male peers as progress towards global gender equality goals stalls, advocacy groups warned on Thursday. About half the countries that signed up to the UN target of achieving gender equality by […]
From job bans to child marriage, countries told to scrap sexist laws
London, UKThomson Reuters Foundation From parts of the United States where child marriage remains legal to Russia, where women are banned from a host of jobs, almost every country has broken long-standing promises to eradicate discriminatory laws, legal experts said on Monday. Rights group Equality Now urged all governments to review their laws as it […]
DEMOCRACY
Most would say that our democracy is largely based on Greek and Roman democracies. Athens was home to what’s often described as the world’s first democracy. PICTURE: Kylie Docherty/Unsplash This system was lost during the dark-ages, but found again when the renaissance rediscovered Greek culture. Not quite. Greco-Roman democracies were not like ours. Only the […]
EQUALITY
Today human equality is a foundational assumption of society. We are all equal. Yet, for most of human history the exact opposite was considered true – natural inequality was self-evident! Some are stronger, taller, smarter – and different abilities gives different responsibilities and privileges. That’s how you get ideas like a ruling class – […]
US urged to act as progress stalls on equal pay
New York CityThomson Reuters Foundation The wage gap between men and women in the United States failed to budge in 2018, government data showed on Tuesday, sparking calls for action to end pay discrimination. Women working full-time year-round earned 82 cents for every dollar earned by men last year, the US Census Bureau said, meaning […]