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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Via AP news wire

Flashes of bold UN talk on feminism, masculinity, patriarchy

Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

Few men in power have delved deeply into gender equality on the main stage of the United Nations this month, but the ones who did went there boldly: claiming feminist credibility, selling “positive masculinity” and resolutely demanding an end to The Patriarchy.

On the first day of the General Assembly gathering of world leaders, Bolivian President Luis Arce touted 2022 as “The Year of the Cultural Revolution for Depatriarchalization” for his country, and urged the United Nations to adopt a decade-long effort to do the same.

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