Welcome to Students Incorporated, a podcast exploring the topics of business, education,
technology and design.
I'm your host, Mr. Jason.
Join me weekly as my team and I produce content that's informative, positive, fun and uplifting.
Episodes include student conversations, interviews with thought leaders and inspirational stories
with an international flavor.
This podcast is created and produced with the help of students from the International
Community School of Bangkok.
In today's episode, we're focusing on the topic of gender equality, its struggles, misconceptions
and stereotypes, as well as youth activism, what young people can do to spark a change
and make a difference.
We'll be diving into topics from intersectional feminism and advocacy, debunking myths and
shedding light on the role gender still plays in our world.
I'm joined today by co-presidents of 50 Squared, a United Nations recognized student-led organization
advocating for women's rights and gender equality.
My co-hosts for the episode are Tasha, the co-vice president of 50 Squared and Rebecca.
Before we get into our first segment, let's get to our quote of the day and get some headline
news.
Our quote of the day comes from Carlton Fice.
He said, it's not what you achieve, it's what you overcome.
That's what defines your career.
This quote can motivate us when we are faced with challenges in our careers.
Like me as a student, it reminds us that achievements aren't necessarily the most important factor
in success.
What's really important is the path we've taken and the obstacles we overcame.
Our career is a process of learning and acquiring new skills.
And the more obstacles we overcome, the more we can learn and the more skills we can acquire.
And that's our quote of the day.
And here's some headline news related to our topic today.
The annual 16 days of activism against gender-based violence is taking place now all around the
world by members of the International Civil Society.
It ends on December 10th.
The theme for this year's activism event is titled Unite!
Invest to Prevent Violence Against Women and Girls.
And it focuses on working with organizations and governments in order to allocate budgets
and time towards working against gender-based violence and particularly violence against
women.
Now moving on, an iconic news network named Jezebel shut down on November 9th after 16
years of covering gender-related issues.
Over those 16 years, it had gained a large audience among women internationally.
However, due to an acquisition in 2019 by another company, which resulted in a lack
of commitment and investment from that parent company, it became unsustainable and was forced
to shut down.
During that same time, employees of Jezebel News cited inhumane treatment by its parent
company.
This illustrates the struggles that outspoken news networks in certain regions of the world
faced when they cover such controversial topics like gender-based violence or gender inequalities.
And finally, the EU's Gender Action Plan, Gap 3, has been extended to the year 2027.
The plan will continue on its goal of building a more gender-equal world.
In the three years that the plan has been active, it's contributed to increasing the
emphasis on gender equality in government and the UN's Sustainable Development Goals.
This plan also supports increased funding for gender-related issues and supports gender
equality among organizations.
It's expected to keep helping bridge the gap between both genders throughout 131 countries
it's been implemented within.
And that ends our headline news.
Now let's get into our first segment.
I'm joined by co-host Rebecca and a guest co-host Tasha, who is the co-vice president
of 50 Squared.
We welcome the co-presidents of this organization, DREAM, and our very own Premi.
We'll be introducing what 50 Squared is and what it strives to do, as well as discussing
what gender equality looked like yesterday, looks like today, and what gender equality
may look like tomorrow.
Rebecca will get us started with our first question.
Thank you for joining our show today.
Would you please introduce yourself and tell us about 50 Squared and what your role is?
Yeah, I'm Premi.
I'm a junior at ICS here, and I'm a co-president for 50 Squared.
Hi, my name is DREAM, and I'm in junior year as well, and I'm a co-president for the 50
Squared club.
For 50 Squared, it comes from the 50-50 equality we advocate for between men and women, empowering
both.
Yeah, with the power of two, and that's where the 50 Squared stems from, like 50 times 50,
that's 50 Squared for all of you math people out there.
And we are a UN-recognized organization, and we have some chapters across Thailand and
internationally.
Thank you.
What are some actions 50 Squared has taken in the past, and what are some plans 50 Squared
has for the future?
Okay, yeah, backtracking a little bit.
So back in 2018, our founder, Amy Jane, who is an ICS alumni, she founded 50 Squared,
and 50 Squared started off as a small school club.
But throughout the years, we've partnered with many Thai nonprofit organizations, arranging
bake sales, fundraisers, speaker series, and we've also expanded our horizons and then
having new chapters in branches nationally across Thailand and also internationally in
India and Jordan as well.
And of course, in 2020, we received letter in mail from United Nations in recognition
applauding our efforts and the organization itself.
And of course, later in 2020, when COVID-19 hit, our founders had graduated already, and
their organization was put on pause.
And in 2023, we have brought 50 Squared back to ICS and have connected with Amy.
And yeah, for future plans, we as of right now started fundraising for a future project
in collaboration with HerICS, which is a period destigmatization project.
And we were connecting with previous chapters from 2020, reaching out to new leaders with
the same dreams and hopes and fighting for the same values.
What are some challenges you faced with the processes you had to go through to bring 50
Squared to life?
You can talk about anything from planning, launching, organizing, and recruitment.
I think the thing with 50 Squared is a lot of the, or I suppose, I guess in Thailand
with a lot of the culture, societal values surrounding it, is that, and especially considering
our age as young people, I think it's a little, it's harder to make progress or to make change.
And in terms of like, there's like a lot of stigma surrounding like the idea of gender quality as well,
or like stigma around advocacy in general and like raising voices and then bringing
conversations that might not be like out of day-to-day conversations and making a change.
And it is always, really always hard to start something new, like the first step, I feel
like is always definitely really hard.
I think definitely I agree with everything that Premi has said, and of course there's
a lot of preconceived ideas about feminism as well, especially in our society as Premi mentioned.
And a lot of people just don't really think that inequality between men and women really
exists anymore in 21st century.
There's a lot of inequality that you can find in between the, you know, in our society.
And when you are ignorant about the problems that we're facing, it's a lot harder to gain
support from, you know, the student body or even communicating through our purpose and
mission and values, because a lot of people will just, you know, devalue it and it's not
going to be like really important.
For our listeners who might not be as familiar with the term feminism or gender equality,
could you talk a little about what those terms mean?
Terms throughout their feminism.
I think just the word feminism alone can be, it has taken a lot of shape and a lot of meanings
and connotations for different groups of people.
And if you like, throughout all of that, the original meaning or the meaning or the intended
purpose for the feminist movement has like changed or shifted or not, or just being perceived
as something that isn't.
So feminism, as defined by the Oxford Dictionary, is the advocacy of women's rights on the
basis of the equality of the sexes.
And that is essentially what gender equality is trying to achieve, the mission to advocate
for the equality of all sexes in terms of like equal access to opportunities and also
equal social, economic, and political rights as well.
And I think building onto like what we said earlier about like people not fully understanding
or having preconceived ideas about the term feminist or feminism, I think one broader
term that can be used in more detail is intersectional feminism.
So intersectional feminism is defined as, like it centers the voices of those experiencing
overlapping oppression, like overlapping forms of oppression, because there are many inequalities
that exist, many marginalized communities, and you would have to consider all forms and
all the ways that marginalized communities are marginalized and underrepresented.
And through that, then consider gender equality for all.
And especially throughout history as well, when we look at the suffragists from the 19th
century, a lot of the feminist movement was carried out by white women.
And for this reason, many people say that this also carries through in the modern feminist
movement with much of the vision and mission being directly advantageous or targeting specific
subdivisions of women, as well as, you know, overshadowing the struggles of women of colors,
LGBTQ women, or even women of the other minority groups face, or, you know, aka white feminism.
Well, overall, intersectional feminism strives to be more inclusive for everyone.
And for the 50 Square Mission, we really just want to bring attention to the opportunity
that men and women face, and, you know, how different those opportunities can be between
those two groups of people, and we want to bring it to the balance between those groups
of people.
That's our main mission.
And yeah, we want to make it clear.
Yeah, for sure.
Absolutely what you said about, like, historically, how feminism is represented or just, like,
treated towards, like, the movement itself is maybe, like, for women who are not women
of color, for instance.
And so I think definitely a term that many feminists use is now intersectional feminist
feminism, to, like, maybe, like, show the divide between maybe radical feminists who
are advocating for women's rights, but, like, to the, to excluding men's rights, but also,
so instead, instead, so not to be mixed up with radical feminism, to have intersectional
feminism instead to be, like, we said, striving to be more inclusive for everyone.
For sure, I absolutely agree.
Adding on to that, when tracing back to centuries prior, our world has come a long way since
the days women did not have the right to vote, or when the only world society deemed acceptable
for women was a domestic caretaker.
However, contrary to what might, many might believe, we still have a long way to go before
we achieve gender equality.
Could you talk about some of the struggles that women still face today?
So since a lot of people really assume that no inequality exists between men and women,
it is quite hard for people to see what women still go through that still isn't fair and
balanced, of course.
I think, well, personally, I think ignorance is the main problem here.
And by ignoring what's, you know, what's the problem, what's the issues, it doesn't
make the issues go away, even though it's like, you know, the phrase called ignorance
is a bliss, even though it's not true for women, which is the main focus for today.
And I'm feeling that it doesn't have anything to do with me as well.
And according to a civil rights advocate, Kimberly Crenshaw, if you see inequality as
a damn problem or unfortunate other problem, and that is a problem itself, because it's
not going to solve if you do not take a collective actions between people of all genders, sexes,
or even ethnic cities.
It's not going to solve the problem.
It won't make it go away.
It's just going to make it lie dormant, but it's going to still affect other people.
Absolutely.
And okay, if we were going to talk more about the existing struggles today that people might
sometimes look over and think that gender equality is achieved, here are some struggles
that highlight the opposite of that statement.
So first, there's the gender pay gap.
We can get more into this later as well with statistics.
A woman makes 82 cents for every dollar a man makes, and that's in the US.
So if we were going to look worldwide, I'm sure the number would go down as well.
So I think like putting things into perspective, that's the gender pay gap.
And talking more about careers or being in the workforce, genders is proportioned in
male dominated fields like STEM and others.
So like science, technology, engineering, mathematics, computer science, business, and
finance, and so many more.
There are double standards that exist within just careers or the feeling that as a woman,
you can't appear too strong, so you can't be bossy, be aggressive, be unkind, but then
you can't appear too weak because then you'll be emotional and ignorant and incapable, and
then you'll get taken advantage of.
So it's really interesting the labels that society put on women, especially in the workforce
or in like careers and work field.
Circling back to the idea of double standards, like especially when considering for promotion
or just receiving like high level entry jobs, or the idea that you need to, as a woman,
you need to work so much more harder, you need to work so much harder to be seen, to
be seen and held in the same regard of that as a man.
And definitely expectations, but I think expectations is just like gender.
That is a whole, that's the social construct, right?
Like expectations are imposed upon every gender and every person.
Yeah, but I think how gender is a social construct, that is definitely a whole other conversation
altogether.
And period stigmatization still exists everywhere.
And I also think that has a lot to do with culture as well, but definitely exists.
Like how you need to whisper like, hi, hey, sorry, do you have a pad?
I forgot, I didn't bring any today.
Things like that.
Like you need to whisper and you can't say it aloud.
But when I was growing up, I was taught that if I had a pad, I needed to hide it, even
though it period is a natural cycle for women that women have to go through.
It is nothing to be ashamed of, but then culturally and then the stigma.
So that's a whole other thing together.
And then sexual harassment as well, cat calls and many other crimes are inflicted upon women,
I think are just some of the few examples of the struggles of the struggles that women
face today and how gender inequality, even though we have come a long way, but we still
believe that we still have a long way to go before gender equality.
Yeah, definitely.
I think many people tend to overrule the existing gender discrepancies today, especially in
comparison with the way history has treated women.
Building on to that, what would you say are common stereotypes when it comes to the concept
of gender equality and the overarching feminist movement itself?
I think the main problem is that the feminist or the gender equality movement is only for
women.
And that's not true because feminism strives for equality between everyone, not just women,
men and other people too.
And for the first topic is toxic masculinity.
And it's tying back to the idea of expectations society sets for each gender.
While men are supposed to be more strong, tougher, you can't cry in front of other people,
you can't really show emotions and it's really affect other people in your life, especially
the people you care about.
So it's really toxic.
And to be stuck in a really toxic masculinity ways of life, it can really affect your mental
health as well.
And it can lead to depression and commit more likely to commit suicide.
While statistically, men are about four times more likely to commit suicide than women,
which is very telling itself.
And sticks may surrounding mental health as we mentioned, by not really talking about
your feelings, it can make things harder for you because it's just in your head and you're
not talking, letting it all out.
And the second thing, I think it's really prominent in our movement in feminism, which
is feminists are men haters, which is not true.
We love men.
And don't let me get starting on that.
Many believe that identifying as a feminist means that you hate men or you are angry at
men, which is no.
Three no, big no, no, no, no.
First group is radical feminists do exist, but aren't there radical groups in every spectrum,
every political field?
And the second thing is the radical field takes up the least space and very little in
the overall population of feminists, but are the lattice and therefore become stereotypical
of that group when simply it is not true.
Feminism by definition has nothing to do with hating men.
We just want to make it balance with every gender.
Feminism strives for one thing.
It's for equal and balance and peace for all gender.
In reading research recently, it shows that feminists generally feel positive towards
men.
And this is a misandry myth.
Misandry for all the audience that didn't know the meeting.
Misagony, dislike or contempt towards men.
Misogyny, dislike or contempt towards women.
Yeah, absolutely agree.
I feel like those are some of the most prominent stereotypes that people are assumptions that
people make about feminism and the feminist movement.
Just like it's like a hundred percent agree with everything that you just said.
Like it definitely isn't just for women.
It's for men to thank you.
It's for men too and I think also how feminists aren't men-taters.
I think that message gets confused a lot or it doesn't get across as much.
And like you said, there are radical feminists out there.
And I feel like, yeah, like what you said, taking up a small percentage of the feminists
overall, but taking the most voices up or taking the most space up.
And then that becomes like, that becomes stereotypical of what people see for feminism.
But okay, here's also another stereotype is that feminists can't take a joke.
I think feminists, we definitely can take a joke.
We do humor.
That is, we do humor.
We take jokes.
But I feel like the thing with jokes is that it can also be seen as microaggressions.
Marginalizations are belittling comments or things that may or may not be intentional,
but they are still belittling and invalidating the experiences of marginalized communities.
And I feel like when a joke is framed that way, it can be insulting.
It can be offensive and belittling for the efforts of the advocates for gender equality
and against women's marginalization.
But the idea or the concept of microaggression definitely extends outside of women's marginalization
to other minority groups and other marginalized groups.
And so jokes like go back to the kitchen is not something to be laughed at because as
long as women's ambitions and contextuality are still placed behind their family and society's
needs, the cruel reality for women will be as tangible as ever.
I totally agree.
These definitely are the preconceived notions many have about the feminist movement, touching
on one of the struggles being the disproportionate ratio of men and women in the STEM field.
Could you expand on that a little bit?
I'm going to speak this from a really personal experience.
Speaking of if a woman really are interested in a STEM field, she's not going to really
get recognized as a professional or even really good in STEM.
And why are you here?
Why don't you go and major in something else?
And that's really prominent, especially, well, not saying our school, but I'm saying a lot
of places in Thailand, in society.
There's a lot of like belittling STEM women efforts of, you know, like pursuing further
career in STEM, especially in computer science is one of them.
It's one of a really prominent subject that a lot of men in that field are not really
recognizing women's effort in it.
And there's a lot of like, career jokes as well.
I think a lot of like STEM related careers, it's a, I think it's leaning more into like
a masculine side of things.
So that can be why a lot of people are not really recognizing women efforts into going
or pursuing further career in STEM, because it's been seen that it's masculine and not
really fitting for women in general, for women in general as women is seen as feminine.
And so it's a really hard and really complicated subject to really expand on because it's really
prominent in, you know, in every day.
Absolutely.
And if you like in careers or like, if you look at like certain male dominated fields,
maybe like STEM business, computer science, all of that, I think just looking at the ratio
itself is telling there should be about roughly about the same number of women and men in
the world.
But the numbers for the ratio for like for such fields are just skyrocketing.
We'll get into this.
I'm excited for this list, but we also have a top 10 list for this episode two later.
So make sure you stick around and listen to that.
But we talk about all the statistics that I think are very telling in itself.
And okay, what you said to him about like expectations and like what society deems is
more masculine.
I have a riddle.
I just listened.
My sister told me that a few days ago, and I think that really stuck with me.
So if you all know this already, don't say the answer.
Okay, here it is.
So there's two people in this riddle, James and a doctor, and they go fishing.
James is the doctor's son.
But the doctor isn't James' father, who is the doctor?
Okay, let's let everyone think.
What do you think?
Um, I really have no idea, to be honest with you.
Wait, wait, is the doctor is not a human being?
The doctor is a human being.
I had some help, but the doctor is a mom.
That is the correct answer.
So I feel like that can be seen as like, that's it.
That's like a very simple example.
I feel like you can just see it as a riddle and it can be that.
But I asked today earlier in marketing class for the podcast, we were planning it and
I gave them this riddle and everyone took quite some minutes before Mr. Jason came with
the right answer that the doctor was his mother.
So I think like this just like demonstrates that, like the societal labels that go with
certain jobs.
So like people would associate being a doctor as a masculine trait, right, or fishing.
Fishing is often seen as a masculine activity.
And so with those two in mind, it's begging the question of why would it take for people
to take so long to realize that it is his mother.
I think that alone is very telling in the way society treats careers.
I think in a family sector as well, when we look into, for example, a father is looking
after his own child, it's because babysitting, but when a woman is looking after her child,
it's called, you know, looking after her child.
All of these terms are really, you know, highlighting the fact that we have a long way to go about
equalizing and balancing the gender inequality between men and women to put women before
her family's and societal's need and, you know, her expectations from her family or
husband or society.
Otherwise we cannot achieve a really good gender equality movement.
Yeah, absolutely.
And I think just this too.
Say there's a single mother with three kids and you're like, oh, like she must go through
so much and struggle so much, but then it's more prevalent versus if you see a single
father with three kids, everyone will be impressed.
And I feel like the difference of being a single mother or a single father, I think
just that alone is very telling about what society deems about the acceptable roles that
women and men should play.
And even though I feel like another stereotype I think that people perceive the feminist
movement is that we're trying to get every single woman in the career field and we're
trying to eliminate the prospect of a woman being like a mother or having a domestic job
and that is simply not true.
I think where we're coming from feminism is that advocating for careers so that anyone
can be whatever they want to be and have equal access to all the opportunities in every career
field.
So anyone can be whatever they want to be.
Yeah, definitely.
The disproportionate ratio is definitely real and still remains to be one of the many prominent
struggles gender equality brings about, deterring other women from joining the field or even
pushing some to leave.
For anyone who wishes to make a positive impact, how would you suggest for them to take action
and make a difference in the world?
I think the main thing is to find what you're passionate about and to fight for it really
loudly and really just, you know, passionately.
Yeah, I think it's like the thing is that don't let anyone tell you otherwise that your
efforts are not really going to help or really not going to make the problem go away.
I think little efforts building up into big efforts, it's really important to take a step
by step, baby steps to, you know, build up something small, but it can expand later.
I think in our school, especially when we're a student as well, by posting a lot of stuff,
educating people about the things that you want people to get educated at.
I think it's a really good way to help young people or other people in general to get educated
and be informed of all the stuff that you want to make change in the world.
And I think to remind yourself every now and then that there's always struggle, but that's
why you're doing this itself.
Remind yourself of the end goal that you want to achieve.
And if you're not starting to do something right now, when will you start?
And it's not going to happen if you don't start right now.
So remind yourself that and keep going and just ignore anyone else who's belittling your
efforts as an advocator.
Yeah, absolutely.
I think passion is definitely really important and it definitely does it like whatever your
passion is advocating for anything that you believe is right.
I think that alone, that will drive the changes.
And I like definitely get what you're going with, with like how you say like when you're
just a student, you're a high school student and you're so, so young and it's the feeling
that like you're so small and you can't actually make an impact.
Maybe it's that feeling and also the feeling because society deems it to be that way for
you.
And so yeah, definitely remind yourself of the end goal.
Like for me personally, I have in my notes app, OneNote is specifically dedicated.
I call it inspiration and then I pull like quotes or articles, statistics, and then books
that I really love that like I think dedicate to the cause that I'm advocating for.
And every time that I'm feeling maybe tired or feeling defeated, I go back and I look
at it and I get inspired again and I remind myself why I'm doing this and why I want to
do this.
And definitely dream big.
I think dream big and you can always start small.
Like starting small can be just like creating conversations and then safe spaces to have
them and then having those relationships and finding other like minded people to build
a community off of I think will be also uplifting and it will definitely make you feel like
you're not alone in this and that people are also advocating for the same thing.
I think adding on to that as well, the important thing is that to be a really open-minded person.
I think there's a lot of people who will not agree with what you're saying or in what you
believe in.
But the thing is that human beings don't agree.
We've seen throughout history that there's a lot of wars going on, there's a lot of conflicts,
especially right now.
There's a lot of conflicts going on.
So I think the thing is that to be really open-minded and to keep in mind that what
you're fighting for and why are you fighting for this, keep in mind of your goals and dreams
as Pramani said and to not really be ignorant because I think in like the 21st century,
you can get educated really easily.
There's a lot of resources you can research on if you want to know anything at all.
So I don't think like using an excuse as you're not like know a lot about this stuff
so you cannot really form an opinion on it.
Get educated.
I think that's a really good way to start advocating for people around the world and
to have a potential to make a change.
What advice would you give to young people who have the potential to make change in today's
world?
How can they start?
I think anyone, absolutely anyone can change.
And I think especially with young people, other or society might deem you or might see
you as incapable.
But the thing is you were young and you have so much potential in you and there is, there
are so many changes you can make and so many impacts, long lasting impacts that you can
make and the differences that you can make.
So I think definitely starting small.
Just what Dream said earlier to just get educated, learn more about it, start conversations,
find like-minded people, maybe start a club, a fundraiser for a cause or do anything.
Definitely starting small is important.
And also if we're talking specifically about gender equality as well, 50 Square invites
students, high school students around the world to start new chapters and join us, join
our community and expand the reaches and the impact that we can make in today's world.
Where specifically for our 50 Square club, there's a lot of actions that you guys could
be a part of.
And to contribute to, you know, a movement of feminism.
First of all, there's a take action page on our website, especially with like spreading
awareness and finding great resources, books, movies, TV shows, blogs, statistics, reports
or even research studies.
I think be like in a front line of absorbing news, but not really absorbing everything
you've seen because you don't know if it's true or not.
To be, I think I said it earlier, but to be open minded is a key here to, you know, not
absorb everything that you've seen, but to absorb something that you think it's valuable
and you think it's credible.
Yeah.
Or the sources that you think it's incredible and you have great conversation with the people
who will not judge you and will, you know, contribute you to like a better conversation
about this topic that you're passionate about.
I think that's a really good way to start spreading awareness and start making changes
in this world.
And yeah, as like Pramie said, it's you're young, you're not like gonna make that much
changes, which is not to worry as of this stage right now.
But I think starting, beginning to do something, that's itself is a really, it's a key here
to contribute something, to make some efforts into, you know, what you're passionate about.
Yeah, make a change.
And with that advice, we end segment one.
Thank you for the insightful discussion and ways in which we all can be aware of the inequalities
that still exist.
We'll be right back with some statistics right after this short announcement.
Hey everyone, 50 Squared is a United Nations recognized nonprofit organization founded
back in 2018.
Through fundraisers, speaker series, collaborations with other non-Thai nonprofit organizations,
we strive to empower women, raise awareness, and advocate for gender equality for all.
This year, we're hoping to organize more events, collaborate with more like-minded organizations
expanding nationally and internationally.
We're looking to recruit more branches and chapters.
As of now, we're selling snacks in classrooms to raise funds for future projects to de-stigmatize
periods.
Be on the lookout for more events to come.
Follow us on Instagram at 50 Squared or subscribe to our mailing list on our website 50squared.org.
We are back with our second segment.
As we wrap up this discussion, our co-host and guest will be sharing a top 10 list of
statistics that will hopefully shed some more light on this subject.
Premi will start us off with number 10.
Number 10.
10 Syllables.
Intimidating.
Bossy.
Aggressive.
Women are 30% more likely to receive feedback for being intimidating, bossy, and aggressive
when being considered for promotion.
Number 9.
19% is the number of bachelor degrees earned by women in 2016.
What's garrulous is that this number dropped significantly from 27% for women who got the
same degree back in 1997.
Number 8.
82 cents to a dollar is what a woman makes on average in the United States when compared
to her male counterparts according to the US government accountability office.
This number drops even further in particular for mothers.
Number 7.
17 to 1.
That's how much male CEOs outnumber female CEOs by.
Let's put things into perspective.
The New York Times states that there are more CEOs named David than there are female CEOs.
Number 6.
66% or two thirds.
Women still account for 66% of all adults worldwide who are unable to read, reports
UNESCO.
This discrepancy stems from education from a young age.
Number 5.
1 fifth.
That's the percentage women make up in business and finances as executive team members, reports
a gender equality research from the UK.
Number 4.
31 is the ratio of men to women in the fields of computer science and engineering.
Number 3.
34% is the percentage representing women in the workforce in the stand fields, research
by the American Association of University Women, reports.
Number 2.
20 September 2014 was when Emma Watson delivered her viral speech as she fought for gender
equality when she is quoted for having said, if not me, who?
If not now, when?
And make your ways for number 1.
One person is what it takes to spark a change and make a difference.
Thank you so much for those stats.
Numbers don't lie.
The top 10 list does help show us that many societies still have work to do in this area.
There are roughly an equal number of men and women in the world.
Inequality still very much exists.
There is a growing movement among the youth to spark conversations and make a difference,
advocating for what we believe to be right.
Dream big dreams and change the world.
As we end this episode, I'm reminded that many inequalities still exist in today's world
and that the youth has the ability to make impact and aspire changes.
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