"What is being called the UN 'gender architecture' is more like a shack. Women need a bigger global house if equality is ever to become a reality."

Equality, Women, Architecture, Being

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"What is being called the UN 'gender architecture' is more like a shack. Women need a bigger global house if equality is ever to become a reality."

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"The vision that the founding fathers had of rule of law and equality before the law and no one above the law, that is a very viable vision, but instead of that, we have quasi mob rule."

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