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| The facts underlying Eve Ensler's One Billion Rising campaign to end violence against women (It's like a feminist tsunami, G2, 29 January) are earth-rattling. Up to 70% of women experience violence in their lifetime, according to the UN. Women aged 15-44 are more at risk from rape and domestic violence than from cancer, car accidents, war and malaria, according to the World Bank. | The facts underlying Eve Ensler's One Billion Rising campaign to end violence against women (It's like a feminist tsunami, G2, 29 January) are earth-rattling. Up to 70% of women experience violence in their lifetime, according to the UN. Women aged 15-44 are more at risk from rape and domestic violence than from cancer, car accidents, war and malaria, according to the World Bank. |
| Violence is gender discrimination writ large. But gender inequality in many forms, guises and disguises is a largely unheralded threat to prosperity, cohesion and stability in the economies that have powered the world through recession and to which it looks for sustained growth. If the emerging markets fail, the world will suffer. | Violence is gender discrimination writ large. But gender inequality in many forms, guises and disguises is a largely unheralded threat to prosperity, cohesion and stability in the economies that have powered the world through recession and to which it looks for sustained growth. If the emerging markets fail, the world will suffer. |
| Gender inequality is morally wrong. It is bad economics. It is bad for business. No country in the world can or should ignore it. Least of all emerging markets. They have been the scene of egregious examples of male-female violence and the abuse of women threatens their societies, the waste of female talent undermines their economies and their political systems. | Gender inequality is morally wrong. It is bad economics. It is bad for business. No country in the world can or should ignore it. Least of all emerging markets. They have been the scene of egregious examples of male-female violence and the abuse of women threatens their societies, the waste of female talent undermines their economies and their political systems. |
| We recently participated in a symposium at Green Templeton College, Oxford, where 50 leaders from government, the public and private sectors, business, civil society and academe agreed that gender inequality may be more acute in emerging markets and the need for national and international action more urgent than anywhere else in the world. We commend these thoughts to your readers. Lady Justice Ang'awa Judge of the high court of Kenya, Rodrigo Botero former finance minister of Colombia, Baroness Mary Goudie, Prof Linda Scott DP world chair for entrepreneurship and innovation, Said Business School, University of Oxford, Prof Ngaire Woods Dean of the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford, Shengman Zhang chair, Citi Asia Pacific | We recently participated in a symposium at Green Templeton College, Oxford, where 50 leaders from government, the public and private sectors, business, civil society and academe agreed that gender inequality may be more acute in emerging markets and the need for national and international action more urgent than anywhere else in the world. We commend these thoughts to your readers. Lady Justice Ang'awa Judge of the high court of Kenya, Rodrigo Botero former finance minister of Colombia, Baroness Mary Goudie, Prof Linda Scott DP world chair for entrepreneurship and innovation, Said Business School, University of Oxford, Prof Ngaire Woods Dean of the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford, Shengman Zhang chair, Citi Asia Pacific |
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