ON ‘BALANCING THE SCALES:’ THE PERSEPHONE NETWORK

This International Women’s Day piece by Asha Clementi and Brianna Delahunty, Co-founders of The Persephone Network, comes as the world gathers for the 70th session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women. Global leaders will again debate what justice for women and girls should look like. But justice cannot be built in rooms where those most affected are missing. From barriers to participation in international forums to the exclusion of youth voices in policymaking, the systems meant to advance gender equality remain deeply unbalanced. If we are serious about “balancing the scales,” we must ask who is allowed to hold them.