Gender Equality and the ROR: Return On Relationships (Part 2) with Tacko Ndiaye

<p style="font-weight: 400;">Gender equality works to advance equality with respect to sex, sexual orientation, and gender identity or expression through the inclusion of people of all genders; today we're focusing on women and their rights.</p> <p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Quote:</strong> <em>“There’s really a need to invest in the empowerment of women underground. Whether it’s economically, socially, culturally, it has to be a package.”</em> <strong>Tacko Ndiaye</strong></p> <p style="font-weight: 400;">The Women’s Equality Movement started almost 200 years now. Every decade has had more and more women speaking up and speaking out in an attempt to create a more equitable world for women and girls around the globe. <strong>Women’s rights are human rights!</strong> These include the right to live free from violence and discrimination; to enjoy the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health; to be educated; to own property; to vote; and to earn an equal wage. On this episode of Authentic Living with Roxanne, we’re privileged to have Tacko Ndiaye join us to talk about her book <em>Women</em> and share her experience of more than 25 years fighting for women everywhere.</p> <p style="font-weight: 400;">This was such a great interview packed with so much inspirational information that we decided to turn it into a 2-part series. Here’s the link to Part 1: <a href= "https://roxannederhodge.com/gender-equality-with-tacko-ndiaye/" target="_blank" rel= "noopener">https://roxannederhodge.com/gender-equality-with-tacko-ndiaye/</a></p> <p style="font-weight: 400;">Tacko is a Gender Team Leader at Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and is based at FAO Headquarters in Rome. She has extensive experience working with governments, national women's groups, bilateral and multilateral organizations, women's networks, civil society, and parliamentarians to advance gender mainstreaming and women's rights in policies, programmes, budgets, institutions, and statistics. Her book, <em>WOMEN,</em> is a powerful v