2019-06-18
38 分钟Welcome to LSEIQ, a podcast from the London School of Economics and Political Science,
where we ask leading social scientists and other experts to answer an intelligent question about economics,
politics or society.
2018, already a standout year for gender equality in the UK.
2018 could be the year of the woman.
Outlawing pay gaps.
Me too.
Pink waves.
2018's biggest gender equality wins worldwide.
Just some of the headlines embracing the idea that 2018 might be a good year for women.
Yet despite the surge in positivity, 2018 was also the year that revealed how common gender hate incidents were,
leading to calls for misogyny to be recognised as a hate crime across the UK.
The year that continued to see a substantial portion of mothers withdrawing from employment after childbirth.
And the year of a sobering report by the World Economic Forum that suggested women would now need to wait 108 years to close the global gender gap and 202 years to bring about parity in the workplace.
Despite global activism, political promises and policy changes, gender inequality appears stubbornly hard to address.
In this episode of LSEIQ, Jess Winterstein asks, is gender equality possible?
So in a literal way, men rule the world.
And this made sense a thousand years ago.
Because human beings lived then in a world in which physical strength was the most important attribute for survival.
The physically stronger person was more likely to lead.