Discussion on Gender Equality in Politics

But all of this,

your ultimate goal, really,

requires political rights.

Without political rights, everything above is

just empty talk, everyone.

Let me be a bit more progressive,

be bold. Among the seven Standing Committee members,

how many should be women? Four.

Why can’t all seven be women?

You’ve probably heard this very

famous—well-known saying:

There was a great

U.S. justice who has passed away, named Ginsburg.

All right, Justice Ginsburg.

She had two very famous

things. The first was that she estab-

lished American women’s right to abortion.

But she didn’t say you have a right to abortion,

she said that abortion is

a matter of privacy and freedom. Privacy is a constitutional right,

so others cannot interfere, right?

But conversely, you could simplify it as,

hey, she had the right to a free abortion.

The second more famous quote,

at the time, she was one of

America’s nine justices, as she had been for many years.

The U.S. Supreme Court has nine justices,

so I recommend a book to you all,

called *The Nine: Inside the Supreme Court*.

It talks about some

particularly interesting Supreme Court

cases and gossip. It’s especially good.

In this book,

you’ll discover that these nine people in America can de-

cide many things,

even impeach the president,

and invalidate some laws that have already taken

effect, right?

For a long time, she was the only female

Supreme Court justice. Then a reporter asked her,

do you think

that equality in America has now been handled

very well, since there are female justices?

Then he said, how many do you think

would be appropriate? The reporter said, what about you?

I’m asking you, right? Who are you leaning toward?

How many justices do you think would be appropriate?

Ginsburg said, I think there

should be nine female justices.

Then everyone, the reporter said that was

too extreme. She said, but for all

these years, all nine have been men.

Why didn’t you think that was extreme?

Right? So why do people think that

all nine, or all seven Standing Committee members, being men

is not extreme?

And with the seven Standing Committee members,

everyone enthusiastically said three just now,

or maybe four, but no one dared say five.

That’s especially conservative, right?

If we truly want equality,

then the capable should rise.

But are the truly capable really rising?

In the workplace, as long as you can

bear children, you will be held back.