Equal. Such a small word for such a complicated idea.
In this issue, we ask a question that feels almost impolite after decades of progress: women have more rights, education, income and influence than generations before us, but are we equal? We have travelled remarkably far, yet full global gender parity remains generations away. Apparently, equality is taking the scenic route.
Issue 51 looks beyond the equal sign to what equality actually feels like in women’s lives. We follow the money, the power and, importantly, the hours women still disproportionately spend caring. We also explore women’s old financial systems, workplace design, the soft life economy and the changing meaning of opportunity
Progress deserves celebration. But celebration should never make us complacent.
We have opened many doors.
Now we must ask what happens after women walk through them.
We are closer.
But are we there?
Publisher & Editor-in-Chief
MAY IKEORA-AMAMGBO (PHD)