Congress is currently conducting its annual parsing of taxpayer dollars to federal departments, agencies and programs—this year, to the tune of $4.75 trillion. If the U.S. believes in gender equality, now is the time to prove it.
slashed funding for the Environmental Protection Agency and Departments of State, Housing and Urban Development, Transportation, Agriculture and more—all while increasing funds for the Departments of Defense, Veterans’ Affairs, Homeland Security and Commerce., which calls for “people-centered, comprehensive, context-specific and prevention-oriented responses that strengthen the protection and empowerment of all people.
The U.S. should use feminist values to decide who gets what—and enter into the budget process with the goal of constructing a country where men and women, and all people, have political, social and economic equality. The UN has laid out a roadmap to creating more equitable distribution of money—it’s time for us to get on the right path.
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