G7 Gender Council Urges Women Must Be 'at the Heart' of COVID Recovery: Weekend Reading on Women's Representation

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The weekend's almost over — make sure you're caught up on your Weekend Reading on Women's Representation! This week: the G7 summit, women win with RankedChoiceVoting (but they're still missing from corporate boardrooms!) and more:

in which authors Rebecca Gordon, Shannon O’Connell, Sophia Fernandes, Keerti Rajagopalan and Rosie Frost discuss how women get selected as candidates and rise to positions of leadership. The focus on engaging with parties and holding them accountable for recruiting more women to run are part of RepresentWomen’s Women’s political leadership is important for ensuring that women’s perspectives and experiences are included in political decision-making.

Our starting point this year is the mounting evidence that COVID-19 risks a step back for gender equality globally, unless governments take urgent action. Despite the centrality of women in the response, the COVID-19 pandemic has had a disproportionate impact on women and girls everywhere by exacerbating existing inequalities.

At least 12 years of gender-transformative education for all, building on G7 Foreign and Development Ministers’ commitments on girls’ education and, domestically, supporting schools to implement gender-responsive policies to benefit girls’ physical and mental wellbeing. Recognition of the impact that global trade has on women as traders, workers and consumers, with G7 Leaders building trading relationships that benefit women and girls around the world.

Action to address the digital gender divide by supporting initiatives that provide women and girls in all areas with affordable, reliable and safe internet and mobile services; and to counteract algorithm bias which puts women, girls and marginalised groups at a disadvantage. Action to tackle online harassment and abuse of women and girls, through the introduction of legislation that establishes a duty of care on technology companies to improve the safety of users online, including appropriate controls for online pornography sites.

 

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