A Womans Will

UN Women found that progress was uneven. Globally, more women are now in school and work. Yet girls are still more likely than boys to be out of school particularly at the secondary level. And although the number of women in elected office has risen, they are still only And women who are already marginalized because of their race, caste, sexuality, income, or location see the fewest gains of all. Goal 5 is more broad-based than the last gender goal and includes targets on ending gender-based violence, eliminating child marriage and female genital mutilation, and ensuring access to sexual and reproductive health.

Now it is up to all of us to hold governments accountable for their commitments and make sure the goals are met. Will women globally lose hard-won rights, or will the backlash instead catalyze new wins? Global Fund for Women is committed to turning these challenges into opportunities for women to assert their leadership, action, and voice. Global Fund for Women is working for a world where every woman and girl can realize and enjoy her human rights.

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Only when women and girls have full access to their rights — from equal pay and land ownership rights to sexual rights, freedom from violence, access to education, and maternal health rights — will true equality exist. Only when women have taken leadership and peacemaking roles and have an equal political voice will economies and countries be transformed.

Typically, women were afraid of physical violence or they were afraid for their children's safety. I got a dog, so that I can run with him, and I also carry mace on me now when I run. I don't go out alone at night. I used to run with headphones on and I don't do that anymore so that I can be aware of what's going on around me. I lock my doors, park in lighted areas, don't run in dark areas. I always take my two dogs with me when I take out the garbage. For women, the fears are specific.

Folk-Lore of Women: Chapter XV: Woman's Will

Men, on the other hand, tended to be more afraid of failure or being humiliated. Most men don't understand the lingering fears of women. When a co-worker complained to her husband she didn't like working the late shift because she was afraid to go to her car, he asked her why she didn't just tuck her blond hair under a baseball cap.

It's not that women are perpetually frightened or immobilized by fear. Rather it's that we know we must constantly be wary. We look over our shoulder in the parking lot, hold our keys in our hands as we leave the building, check out who's in the elevator, lock our windows even on a sweltering summer night -- a hundred small gestures that become second nature to a woman. We take precautions a man never considers. I recently spent an afternoon with a single friend while a police officer did a security check of her home.

She didn't want to be alone in her house with a stranger, even though he was a policeman. I doubt many man would have considered such a check necessary. Not long ago a friend of mine called to ask me to stay with her for a few nights. Her husband was leaving town and she didn't want to stay in the house alone. I went because my husband was out of town on the same weekend and I didn't want to stay home alone either.

If you're a man this won't make any sense to you. But if you're a woman alone in a big house, doors and windows can keep you up at night. There are plenty of bad guys out there and only a door or a window separates them from us. Though my windows are painted shut, the doors double locked and deadbolted, I still have an escape route plotted out in case I actually hear someone climbing up the steep stairs to the hallway outside the bedroom. I realize this is ridiculous, but who can help the dark demons that the night summons? Do men go through these elaborate scenarios in the dead of the night, trying to map out an escape route?

I've never met one who did. But most women I know have a plan. A year-old woman we interviewed for our documentary thought she had taken precautions. She was raped a few months ago in her home when she heard her dog barking and opened the door to let it in. A masked stranger with a knife grabbed her, dragged her into the house and raped her. All women are vulnerable like I am. And if they don't realize it, they should.

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Because you never know what's going to happen. You never ever now when it's going to happen. And you always need to be checking your back. It's a reality that makes Maggie resentful. It seems like we just keep having more and more things that we have to watch out for, and more and more freedoms we lose, just by our gender. The ever-controversial Camilia Paglia says women are dreaming if they think anything will change. It keeps telling women they can do anything, go anywhere, say anything, wear anything.

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Women will always be in sexual danger," she writes in her book Sex, Art and American Culture. To illustrate, she relates the story of a male student who slept in a passageway of the Great Pyramid in Egypt. I am a woman. I am not stupid enough to believe I could ever be safe there. There is a world of solitary adventure I will never have. Women have always known these somber truths. While we must remedy social injustice whenever we can, Paglia says we must realize that there are some things we can never change.

CHAPTER XV

An anthropologist friend of mine who comes from a perspective of looking at cultures past and present, agrees with her. She says women will forever be prey because of the differences between the sexes. They may be right.