✦ Manifesto for Supporting Women’s Equality ✦

Supporting women’s equality is not a gesture — it is a lifelong practice.

It requires courage, redistribution of power, and daily action.

1. Listen First, Act Second

   • Hear women’s voices. Believe their experiences. Ask how you can stand alongside, not ahead of, their struggles.

2. Join and Strengthen the Movement

   • Power grows when people gather. Align yourself with global and local organisations that fight for women’s rights:
     • UN Women — the United Nations entity for gender equality.
     • Equality Now — advocates for legal and systemic change worldwide.
     • Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) — oldest women’s peace organisation, linking peace and equality.
     • Global Fund for Women — resources for grassroots women-led movements.
     • Amnesty International – Women’s Rights Programme — campaigns against gender-based violence and discrimination.
     • CARE International — advancing women’s economic justice and leadership.
     • The Malala Fund — championing girls’ education globally.

3. More Women, Everywhere

   • Until full equality is met, more women must be at the table — in politics, science, business, media, culture, and beyond.
   • Representation is not a quota, it is justice delayed. Every space that shapes society must hold women’s leadership as central, not optional.

4. Challenge Inequality Wherever You See It

   • Speak up when women are silenced, ignored, or ridiculed.
   • Refuse to normalise sexist jokes, biased hiring, or unequal pay.

5. Redistribute Power and Resources

   • If you hold influence, use it to amplify women’s leadership, fund women’s ideas, and open doors that have been shut.
   • Measure success not by how much power you keep, but by how much you share.

6. Practice Equality Daily

   • In homes, workplaces, schools, and public life — divide care, labour, and decision-making fairly.
   • Model what a just society looks like, every day.

7. Stand in Co-Struggle, Not Just Allyship

   • Allyship without risk is decoration. Commit to dismantling the structures — patriarchy, economic injustice, racism, exploitation — that keep women unequal.
   • Accept that true equality means letting go of unearned advantages.

8. Move Beyond Genders

   • While the fight for women’s equality is urgent and unfinished, the horizon stretches further: a society free from the cages of gender itself.
   • To care for women is to also care for all who do not fit into rigid categories — building a world where identity is not a limit but a possibility.

9. Think and Act Intersectionally

   • Women are not one group. Their struggles differ across race, class, sexuality, disability, and geography.
   • A fight for women’s equality must hold all these truths together.