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Men are from Mars women care about Earth

Monday, 24 November 2008

The failure to successfully address gender inequality may well lie at the heart of our failure to progress towards sustainable development. Women are consistently reported as being more concerned about the environment and social equity than men but are not found in any great number in the key decision making roles. Our report, Making the Connections: Gender and Sustainable Development looks at gender issues and introduces a proposition that if more women were in positions of decision making their different attitudes to sustainable development would have led to radically different conditions today. One of the key principles behind sustainable development is that of social equity. Societies that are developing sustainably will have addressed issues of inequity across their challenges and opportunities. Sustainable development is rooted in the 1987 seminal document ‘Our Common Future’ credited to the vision of Gro Harlem Brundtland, the then first female premier of Norway. Governments across the world remain dominated by male representatives both in democratic and in non-democratic countries. In the Scotland and Lithuania the rights of women were enshrined in the early 20th century when women were afforded the right to vote. However it appears that progress has been slow in increasing representation and influence over progress as we moved into the 21st Century despite such measures as positive discrimination in politics in democracies such as Scotland. It is the purpose of this paper to explore gender inequality in Scotland and in one other European state, Lithuania, chosen as one of the contributing author’s home country with Scotland her now adopted home. Tags See All Tags equality  sustainable  Powered By Joomla Tags

 

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