This is one of five letters written by the (now
disbanded) International Pro-Male Association to international organisations.
None of these letters was replied to or even acknowledged.
22 April 2007
The World Bank
1818 H Street, NW
Washington, DC 20433
USA
Dear Mr. Wolfowitz,
Gender Equality as Scam Economics
We are writing to you in connection with the World Bank's report:
Gender Equality as Smart Economics: A World Bank Group Gender Action
Plan (Fiscal years 2007–10) as reproduced on the webpage: http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTGENDER/Resources/GAPNov2.pdf
(last accessed 6 April 2007).
The focus of our concern is your rationale for this action plan, which
states, amongst other things, that:
"... increased women’s labor force participation and earnings
are associated with reduced poverty and faster growth."
The only evidence for this statement that you give is a footnote referring
to the Opening address by Paul Wolfowitz, President, World Bank, at
the High-Level Consultation on February 16, 2006, which is quite clearly
not a reference to primary research. There is apparently no full-text
version of this opening address available online, but it is reported
on on the webpage: http://www.noticias.info/asp/aspcomunicados.asp?nid=147474
(last accessed on 6 April 2007). The only relevant statement by Mr.
Wolfowitz that is reported there is:
" No country can expect to progress if half its population is
held back from achieving what they’re capable of. President Paul
Wolfowitz said at the opening of the conference: I have seen in my travels
the unmistakable role women play—not only in improving the lives
of their children and families but also in revitalizing their communities
and contributing to their countries’ economic progress."
This is not evidence -- this is a sequence of platitudes! We could
even call it lies. Where are the statistics to back these platitudes
up? In the West, we have seen increasing separation, divorce, crime,
drug abuse, divorce, materialism, consumerism and environmental damage
as arguable results of women being pressured to leave the home and enter
the workforce.
It is clear that a political decision has been made to push women into
the workforce internationally, and only token and cosmetic attempts
-- amounting to a scam -- have been made by the World Bank to provide
economic justification for this decision.
This is a typical example of the gender inequality policies with a
distinctly anti-male bias that the United Nations agencies have been
pursuing of late. In the past, one working member of the family ( tradionally
the male) has been able to provide for his family. Because of the active
involvement of females in the workforce, the ability of one person in
the family to provide has been halfed.
This undermining of the ability of one person to provide for the family
is actually economic subversion. As all lower and middle class members
of the population in developed and devoloping countries well know, one
person working cannot bring home the bacon and pay the rent any more.
So companies are actually paying you half what you would have been paid
in the 40's and 50's. Your paycheck may be a lot bigger, but your buying
power has been halved.
The so called gender equalization has actually shackled and enslaved
women, forcing them to give up looking after their own children, dumping
them in childcare centres or indoctrinating public schools and going
to work whether they want to or not. This has significantly contributed
to broken families and homes, because workplaces provide opportunities
for flirtation and increased access to feminist propaganda on the virtues
of divorce, and because stressed-out partners come home from work to
an equally stressed-out partner, as opposed to someone who has been
housekeeping and babysitting, which involves fewer and different sorts
of stresses. Career women are also to some extent in a competitive relationship
to career men. All this invites discord and disharmony.
Have the United Nations agencies done one single act to protect the
male or the family unit -- which, by the way, is what raises future
world citizens? Men need support nowadays. In fact, they always did,
but since they ran the world they concentrated on supporting women.
Women are now exploiting that male chivalry, as they increasingly help
to run the world. Men face discrimination -- both traditional discrimination
brought about by chivalry and new-fangled discrimination brought about
by feminist laws.
Yours faithfully,
Peter Zohrab
Secretary, IPMA
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