U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres called for greater gender equity in the tech industry, and said women have faced growing discrimination online.
Decades of global progress on women’s rights are “vanishing before our eyes,” United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres warned in an emotional speech at a U.N. Security Council meeting Monday afternoon, just two days ahead of International Women’s Day, arguing sexual abuse, a lack of educational and employment opportunities and the rollback of reproductive rights have pushed the goal of gender equality “300 years away.
In his speech, Guterres called for “urgent action to equalize power” by increasing education and employment opportunities for women and girls “particularly in the global south,” promoting women’s participation in science and technology and creating a “safe digital environment for women and girls.” Specifically, he pointed to Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, where he said “women and girls have been erased from public life”—the U.N.’s internal organization
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