Elaine Gilmartin
1 min readJun 29, 2023

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Yes, definitely. The U.N. has a full report on the outcomes of women and children in civil strife and their outcomes are worse. The book, Our Bodies, Their Battlefields also details this. UNESCO has a report on women journalists, Filipino journalist Maria Ressa speaks to this in a recent book and she cannot go back to her native country. Another good read is The Chaos Machine by Max Fisher which speaks to female journalists. Also the fact that algorithms are deliberately misogynistic and women bear the brunt of online harrassment ,ex Gamergate. The book is well-sourced and the misogynistic algorithms are addressed relatively early in the book. Young women in their 20's are often not trolling young men with threats to rape or kill them, but the opposite is true. As for caregiving, women still devote more time to this than men do, also household tasks. These are well-studied but I don't have a source right now, definitely can find. I operate from the premise we must work together, but that does not negate the realities of empirical evidence that misogyny and misandry are a false equivalency. And right now, women are demonstrably second class, the ERA has never been ratified, bodily autonomy depends on where you live. Many women are the sole breadwinners as single adults have surpassed married ones, there remains a wage gap, and most families need dual incomes. We need men to challenge these injustices and support us in this endeavor because it benefits us all by creating a healthier society.

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Elaine Gilmartin
Elaine Gilmartin

Written by Elaine Gilmartin

A therapist by profession, a runner by passion, a writer by necessity.

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