WOMEN'S FORUM GLOBAL MEETING 19

Nov 21 | 18:10 - 19:00

The key to inclusion is not women and other minorities but white male privilege - #nytdebate

Room: Plenary

Description

If privileged groups clinging to the status quo are resisting progress on gender, environment, human rights and other forms of societal change, how far should society go to bring them into the fold – or abandon the effort altogether and turn to building new ground-up change? Perhaps ‘angry white men’, as New York Times columnist Paul Krugman characterised them, are angry for reasons that we need to acknowledge and understand, and rejecting their perspectives is counterproductive. Do women have a part to play in bringing them into an inclusive discussion?

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