22 April 2007


Dear Mr. Wolfowitz,


Gender Equality as Scam Economics


We are writing to you in connection with the World Bank's report:

Gender Equality as Smart Economics: A World Bank Group Gender Action Plan 
(Fiscal years 2007-10) as reproduced on the webpage: 
http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTGENDER/Resources/GAPNov2.pdf (last 
accessed 6 April 2007).

The focus of our concern is your rationale for this action plan, which 
states, amongst other things, that:

"... increased women's labor force participation and earnings are associated 
with reduced poverty and faster growth."

The only evidence for this statement that you give is a footnote referring 
to the Opening address by Paul Wolfowitz, President, World Bank, at the 
High-Level Consultation on February 16, 2006, which is quite clearly not a 
reference to primary research. There is apparently no full-text version of 
this opening address available online, but it is reported on on the webpage: 
http://www.noticias.info/asp/aspcomunicados.asp?nid=147474 (last accessed on 
6 April 2007). The only relevant statement by Mr. Wolfowitz that is reported 
there is:

" No country can expect to progress if half its population is held back from 
achieving what they're capable of. President Paul Wolfowitz said at the 
opening of the conference: I have seen in my travels the unmistakable role 
women play-not only in improving the lives of their children and families 
but also in revitalizing their communities and contributing to their 
countries' economic progress."

This is not evidence -- this is a sequence of platitudes! We could even call 
it lies. Where are the statistics to back these platitudes up? In the West, 
we have seen increasing separation, divorce, crime, drug abuse, divorce, 
materialism, consumerism and environmental damage as arguable results of 
women being pressured to leave the home and enter the workforce.

It is clear that a political decision has been made to push women into the 
workforce internationally, and only token and cosmetic attempts -- amounting 
to a scam -- have been made by the World Bank to provide economic 
justification for this decision.

This is a typical example of the gender inequality policies with a 
distinctly anti-male bias that the United Nations agencies have been 
pursuing of late. In the past, one working member of the family ( 
tradionally the male) has been able to provide for his family. Because of 
the active involvement of females in the workforce, the ability of one 
person in the family to provide has been halfed.

This undermining of the ability of one person to provide for the family is 
actually economic subversion. As all lower and middle class members of the 
population in developed and devoloping countries well know, one person 
working cannot bring home the bacon and pay the rent any more. So companies 
are actually paying you half what you would have been paid in the 40's and 
50's. Your paycheck may be a lot bigger, but your buying power has been 
halved.

The so called gender equalization has actually shackled and enslaved women, 
forcing them to give up looking after their own children, dumping them in 
childcare centres or indoctrinating public schools and going to work whether 
they want to or not. This has significantly contributed to broken families 
and homes, because workplaces provide opportunities for flirtation and 
increased access to feminist propaganda on the virtues of divorce, and 
because stressed-out partners come home from work to an equally stressed-out 
partner, as opposed to someone who has been housekeeping and babysitting, 
which involves fewer and different sorts of stresses. Career women are also 
to some extent in a competitive relationship to career men. All this invites 
discord and disharmony.

Have the United Nations agencies done one single act to protect the male or 
the family unit -- which, by the way, is what raises future world citizens? 
Men need support nowadays. In fact, they always did, but since they ran the 
world they concentrated on supporting women. Women are now exploiting that 
male chivalry, as they increasingly help to run the world. Men face 
discrimination -- both traditional discrimination brought about by chivalry 
and new-fangled discrimination brought about by feminist laws.

Yours faithfully,


Peter Zohrab
Secretary, IPMA
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