Universal Education: "The decision-making agencies involved would do well to
consider giving first priority to the education of women and girls..." (The
Promise of World Peace)
World Peace: "The emancipation of women, the achievement of full equality
between the sexes, is one of the most important, though less acknowledged
prerequisites of peace. The denial of such equality perpetrates an injustice
against one half of the world's population and promotes in men harmful
attitudes and habits that are carried from the family to the workplace, to
political life, and ultimately to international relations. There are no
grounds, moral, practical, or biological, upon which such denial can be
justified. Only as women are welcomed into full partnership in all fields of
human endeavour will the moral and psychological climate be created in which
international peace can emerge." (The Promise of World Peace)
World Civilization: "The creation of a peaceful and sustainable world
civilization will be impossible without the full participation of women in
every arena of human activity." (Turning Point of All Nations)
The Role of Men: "It is time for the institutions of the world, composed
mainly of men, to use their influence to promote the systematic inclusion of
women, not out of condescension or presumed self-sacrifice but as an act
motivated by the belief that the contributions of women are required for
society to progress." (Turning Point of All Nations)
Global Development: "A commitment to the establishment of full equality
between men and women, in all departments of life and at every level of
society, will be central to the success of efforts to conceive and implement a
strategy of global development." (The Prosperity of Humankind)
A New Economy: "Given the vital role of economic activity in the advancement
of civilization, visible evidence of the pace at which development is
progressing will be the extent to which women gain access to all avenues of
economic endeavor. The challenge goes beyond ensuring an equitable distribution
of opportunity, important as that is. It calls for a fundamental rethinking of
economic issues in a manner that will invite the full participation of a range
of human experience and insight hitherto largely excluded from the discourse.
The classical economic models of impersonal markets in which human beings act
as autonomous makers of self-regarding choices will not serve the needs of a
world motivated by ideals of unity and justice. Society will find itself
increasingly challenged to develop new economic models shaped by insights that
arise from a sympathetic understanding of shared experience, from viewing human
beings in relation to others, and from a recognition of the
centrality to social well-being of the role of the family and the community.
Such an intellectual breakthrough -- strongly altruistic rather than
self-centered in focus -- must draw heavily on both the spiritual and
scientific sensibilities of the race, and millennia of experience have prepared
women to make crucial contributions to the common effort. " (The Prosperity of
Humankind)
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