Gender
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I'm here to recruit men to support
gender
equality.
What do men have to do with
gender
equality?
I mean, the word
gender
is about women.
I have no race, no class, no
gender.
So I like to think that was the moment I became a middle class white man, that class and race and
gender
were not about other people, they were about me.
I have a colleague, and she and I both teach the sociology of
gender
course on alternate semesters.
I mean, if you were to say to my students, "There is structural inequality based on
gender
in the United States," they'd say, "Well of course you'd say that.
So making
gender
visible to men is the first step to engaging men to support
gender
equality.
Now, when men first hear about
gender
equality, when they first start thinking about it, they often think, many men think, well, that's right, that's fair, that's just, that's the ethical imperative.
They see supporting
gender
equality something akin to the cavalry, like, "Thanks very much for bringing this to our attention, ladies, we'll take it from here."
This results in a syndrome that I like to call 'premature self-congratulation.' (Laughter) (Applause) There's another group, though, that actively resists
gender
equality, that sees
gender
equality as something that is detrimental to men.
Why isn't the title of the show, 'A Black Woman Got the Job?' or 'A Black Woman Got A Job?'" Because without confronting men's sense of entitlement, I don't think we'll ever understand why so many men resist
gender
equality.
So, now I've established some of the obstacles to engaging men, but why should we support
gender
equality?
But more than that,
gender
equality is also in our interest as men.
If you listen to what men say about what they want in their lives,
gender
equality is actually a way for us to get the lives we want to live.
It turns out, according to most studies, that those countries that are the most
gender
equal are also the countries that score highest on the happiness scale.
Even within Europe, those countries that are more
gender
equal also have the highest levels of happiness.
So the question I'm often asked in companies is, "Boy, this
gender
equality thing, that's really going to be expensive, huh?"
And I say, "Oh no, in fact, what you have to start calculating is how much
gender
inequality is already costing you.
I think we have the persuasive numbers, the data, to prove to men that
gender
equality is not a zero-sum game, but a win-win.
So, what we found is something really important, that
gender
equality is in the interest of countries, of companies, and of men, and their children and their partners, that
gender
equality is not a zero-sum game.
When you educate people, they are going to be different, and today all over, we need to work for
gender
equality.
Can we end hunger, achieve
gender
equality, halt climate change, all in the next 15 years?
OK, there's a lot of runny noses and stubbed toes, but no matter who walks through the door to the ER, we order the same tests, we prescribe the same medication, without ever thinking about the sex or
gender
of our patients.
How many other things need to be analyzed by
gender?
I know they're going to see the value of incorporating the
gender
lens into the current curriculum.
And from now on, I want you to ask your doctors whether the treatments you are receiving are specific to your sex and
gender.
Remember, for me and my colleagues in this field, your sex and
gender
matter.
A beautiful, vibrant transgendered woman, Bhumika has had to overcome being expelled from school and getting incarcerated because of her
gender
presentation.
Something as simple as using a public restroom can be a huge challenge when you don't fit in to people's strict
gender
expectations.
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