{"id":47764,"date":"2026-04-06T19:39:25","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T17:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/u3ajavea.com\/info\/?p=47764"},"modified":"2026-04-06T19:39:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T17:39:26","slug":"women-work-and-power-is-gender-equality-just-a-pipe-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u3ajavea.com\/info\/women-work-and-power-is-gender-equality-just-a-pipe-dream\/","title":{"rendered":"Women, Work and Power \u2013 is Gender Equality just a Pipe Dream?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"572\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/u3ajavea.com\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Introduction-to-women.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-47770\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.4592067244549514;width:422px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/u3ajavea.com\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Introduction-to-women.png 572w, https:\/\/u3ajavea.com\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Introduction-to-women-300x206.png 300w, https:\/\/u3ajavea.com\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Introduction-to-women-474x324.png 474w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 572px) 100vw, 572px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>On the last Friday of March, we had a monthly meeting. We discussed the power gap<strong>: <\/strong>women in politics and the workplace<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Spain leads Europe&#8217;s most encouraging headlines \u2014 women hold 44% of parliamentary seats and half the Cabinet. The UK sits at 40% and 44%. Zoom out globally, and the mood shifts fast: women hold just 22% of cabinet posts worldwide, and only 30 serve as Heads of State across 28 countries. The numbers are better than they were. They&#8217;re still not good enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"553\" height=\"308\" src=\"https:\/\/u3ajavea.com\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Challengies-for-women-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-47775\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.9811025447800128;width:448px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/u3ajavea.com\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Challengies-for-women-1.png 553w, https:\/\/u3ajavea.com\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Challengies-for-women-1-300x167.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 553px) 100vw, 553px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>History offers a clue. The women who broke through \u2014 Elizabeth I, Catherine the Great, Indira Gandhi, Margaret Thatcher \u2014 didn&#8217;t just lead. They had to <em>out man<\/em> the men around them to survive. Today&#8217;s equivalents, Sheinbaum, Meloni, Takaichi, still operate in political cultures built by men, for men.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The workplace tells the same story. After both World Wars, women who had run factories and managed entire industries were quietly sent home when the men returned. The unspoken deal was clear: extraordinary circumstances aside, your place is domestic. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"628\" height=\"343\" src=\"https:\/\/u3ajavea.com\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Women-place-after-WWII-.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-47771\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.8309313830931384;width:422px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/u3ajavea.com\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Women-place-after-WWII-.png 628w, https:\/\/u3ajavea.com\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Women-place-after-WWII--300x164.png 300w, https:\/\/u3ajavea.com\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Women-place-after-WWII--600x328.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 628px) 100vw, 628px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It took hard-won voting rights, mass university education and the contraceptive pill to begin dismantling that assumption through the 1960s and 70s. Progress since has been real but slow \u2014 women now lead giants like General Motors, Citigroup and Nasdaq, yet represent just 6\u20139% of CEOs globally. The most revealing experiment wasn&#8217;t in a boardroom but a concert hall: when the New York Philharmonic auditioned musicians behind a screen, female hires rose sharply. The music hadn&#8217;t changed. Only the visibility had.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In parts of the world, particularly where tribal custom and religious conservatism overlap, the conversation about equality hasn&#8217;t meaningfully begun. That is unlikely to change quickly, if at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two uncomfortable questions remain. Are senior men reluctant to promote women? And why do women who reach the top so rarely pull others up behind them? Both patterns are real. Both are corrosive -the system was built by men for men, and any outsider has to play according to the same old rules and perceptions<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"501\" height=\"241\" src=\"https:\/\/u3ajavea.com\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Fighting-for-promotion-.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-47766\" style=\"aspect-ratio:2.078962875662935;width:471px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/u3ajavea.com\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Fighting-for-promotion-.png 501w, https:\/\/u3ajavea.com\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Fighting-for-promotion--300x144.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 501px) 100vw, 501px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The conclusion is blunt: <strong>i<\/strong>mprovement is not the same as equality under the law. The figures speak plainly. We&#8217;re not there yet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the last Friday of March, we had a monthly meeting. We discussed the power gap: women in politics and the workplace Spain leads Europe&#8217;s most encouraging headlines \u2014 women hold 44% of parliamentary seats and half the Cabinet. The UK sits at 40% and 44%. Zoom out globally, and the mood shifts fast: women [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14690,"featured_media":47765,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[296,108,360],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-discussion-group","category-news","category-newsletter-weekly"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-14 11:19:19","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u3ajavea.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u3ajavea.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u3ajavea.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u3ajavea.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14690"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u3ajavea.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47764"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/u3ajavea.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47777,"href":"https:\/\/u3ajavea.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47764\/revisions\/47777"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u3ajavea.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u3ajavea.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u3ajavea.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u3ajavea.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}