Congresswoman Carolyn B. Maloney today urged outgoing United Nation’s Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to make every effort to ensure his successor is a woman. No woman has served as Secretary General since the creation of the United Nations in 1945.
“Since the founding of the United Nations 70 years ago, no woman has ever been elected Secretary-General,” said Maloney. “Having a woman serve for the first time as the Secretary-General of the United Nations would make manifest one of the UN’s most high profile stated goals and would serve as a powerful symbol to the approximately 3.6 billion people in this world who are women. Crises around the world show the need for such leadership—from the abuses of Islamic State and the Taliban to the kidnappings of Boko Haram. Electing a woman as Secretary-General will send a clear signal that the world not only rejects the subjugation of women, but believes that women should be elevated to the highest levels of leadership.”
The full text of Maloney’s letter to the Secretary-General can be accessed here.
Congresswoman Carolyn B. Maloney today urged outgoing United Nation’s Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to make every effort to ensure his successor is a woman. No woman has served as Secretary General since the creation of the United Nations in 1945.
“Since the founding of the United Nations 70 years ago, no woman has ever been elected Secretary-General,” said Maloney. “Having a woman serve for the first time as the Secretary-General of the United Nations would make manifest one of the UN’s most high profile stated goals and would serve as a powerful symbol to the approximately 3.6 billion people in this world who are women. Crises around the world show the need for such leadership—from the abuses of Islamic State and the Taliban to the kidnappings of Boko Haram. Electing a woman as Secretary-General will send a clear signal that the world not only rejects the subjugation of women, but believes that women should be elevated to the highest levels of leadership.”
The full text of Maloney’s letter to the Secretary-General can be accessed here.