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My word: What does equality mean to you?

We live in a world where women have to work twice as hard to fight biases against them (Shutterstock)

"Beware the danger of what I call Feminism Lite. It is the idea of conditional female equality. Please reject this entirely. It is a hollow, appeasing and bankrupt idea." - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. 

If both men and women would look at gender equality through the same lenses Chimamanda used when she wrote the book in which I got the above quote from, we wouldn't still be advocating for gender equality in 2020, which happens to be this year's International Women's Day celebrations theme.

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