U.N. Women’s Agency Publishes Sobering Report on Lack of Gender Equality - NYTimes.com

U.N. Women’s Agency Publishes Sobering Report on Lack of Gender Equality - NYTimes.com: "Gender equality is increasingly enshrined in laws, but many millions of women still have no access to justice, said Michelle Bachelet, the former president of Chile who was appointed as executive director of U.N. Women, the global body’s first agency for gender equality and female empowerment, which published the report.

“We’ve come a long way, but we still have a long way to go,” she said. “And even where the laws exist, the implementation and enforcement of those laws can be poor — even in the most progressive countries.”"