There is no doubt that Golding spoke these words, perhaps more than once. A clip preserved on YouTube, in which Golding discusses the origins and meaning of Lord of the Flies , captures him making that pronouncement, specifically in answer to the question of why his dystopian novel featured boys rather than girls:.
Why did you write this about a bunch of boys? I have never been a sister, or a mother, or a grandmother. Another answer is of course to say that if you, as it were, scaled down human beings, scaled down society, if you land with a group of little boys, they are more like a scaled-down version of society than a group of little girls would be.
Across the U. That number worsens for Black, Hispanic, and Native American women. Worldwide, the majority of the more than 1 billion people living in poverty are women, according to the U.
It's estimated that 60 percent of chronically hungry people around the world are women and girls, and it can be a statistic that's a trickle-down effect of larger problems of gender inequality like lack of education, lack of job opportunities, and violence against women.
According to WFP Gender Policy and Strategy , high food prices, climate change, and economic instability exacerbate existing inequities. It's not solely a global trend: Women disproportionately experience hunger in the United States when compared to men. In this country, Because women have children and live longer, historically they've been considered higher " risks " from a health insurance perspective—meaning they've been charged more.
Despite the Department of Health and Human Services HHS issuing a ruling prohibiting discrimination in health insurance and healthcare in , women still pay more and get less from health insurance and their healthcare usage.
Behind the scenes, women working in Tinseltown make up only a small portion of the workforce; according to the New York Film Academy's Gender Inequality in Film Infographic , the ratio of men to women working on films is 5 to 1.
There are seven times as many men writing film scripts as there are women, and women only account for 11 percent of directors in Hollywood across genres. Back in , the film All the Money in the World made headlines, but not for the reasons one would expect.
Shocking, but not at all uncommon in Hollywood; Forbes reported that actresses earned only about 35 cents on the dollar compared to their male counterparts in the industry. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization UNESCO studied sports coverage and found that there were significant differences in the way that female athletes and their games were discussed in the sports media.
Coverage of women in sports, says the organization, is often dominated by references to appearance, age, or family life—men are depicted as powerful, independent, dominating, and valued as athletes. Besides gendered conversations by sports pundits, female athletes are still trying to fight against the wage gap that exists in the sports world.
Despite winning more games and bringing in more revenue than the U. Part of the lawsuit was dismissed in ; The players settled another part inequitable working conditions and say they plan to appeal. United States. Type keyword s to search. Today's Top Stories.
Marina Cortbawi Created Clothes for Freedom. Getty Images. Women pay more for common household items than men do. And the "pink tax" isn't just for personal care items. Women make less money than their male counterparts.
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