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Article The Paradox of Women’s Rights in Peru

Article The Paradox of Women’s Rights in Peru

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Oct 16 2025, 3:51 AM
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https://www.newsgram.com/women-empowerment/2025/10/06/paradox-of-womens-rights-in-peru
https://archive.ph/wdA7z

Quote:According to the SDG Gender Index, Peru scores 72.9 for “Proportion of seats held by women in national parliaments,” a figure that suggests progress, visibility, and leadership. And yet, when we shift our gaze to health, the score drastically drops to 35.5, barely half. Women are present in Congress, but absent from the healthcare system that should protect them.

If political participation alone were enough, our streets would be safer, our hospitals accessible, and our voices heard beyond the voting booth. But in Peru, as in much of Latin America, representation has not broken the chains of inequality — it has simply made them less visible to those who govern.
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Oct 16 2025, 3:51 AM #1

https://www.newsgram.com/women-empowerment/2025/10/06/paradox-of-womens-rights-in-peru
https://archive.ph/wdA7z

Quote:According to the SDG Gender Index, Peru scores 72.9 for “Proportion of seats held by women in national parliaments,” a figure that suggests progress, visibility, and leadership. And yet, when we shift our gaze to health, the score drastically drops to 35.5, barely half. Women are present in Congress, but absent from the healthcare system that should protect them.

If political participation alone were enough, our streets would be safer, our hospitals accessible, and our voices heard beyond the voting booth. But in Peru, as in much of Latin America, representation has not broken the chains of inequality — it has simply made them less visible to those who govern.

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Oct 17 2025, 10:59 AM
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While the results of better ("more equal") representation in institutional systems is a good thing, like this article points out it, it is not the only thing.

My core guiding statement in regards to feminism is just "women are human." All I would like the world to acknowledge is that women are human beings. I feel like when that happens, the rest should fall into place.

To me, equal representation in bureaucratic systems/political institutions is part of a two-pronged approach to getting people to recognize women are human. Since women are human, and since we make up roughly 50% of the human population, we absolutely should be included at least 50% on all governing an institutional systems. 50% of the opinions should be coming from one of the two halves of the human population. This is just one thing though.

Quote:Representation matters. But it is only the beginning.

As this article points out, equal representation in governing systems does not translate to fair treatment in the real world. That is a more difficult part of getting people to recognize that women are human. But I believe the first part, the equal representation in various institutions, is part of a start of how we get there.

So I do appreciate this article for calling out how just meeting a demographics quota in political institutions, it does not resolve female people's systematic oppression. We still have a long way to go in that. The equal representation of women in government can only show that women are human in terms of they are just as likely as men to be bureaucratic, corrupt, and not actually care about improving the lives of their constituents. Once we can move on from that point, we keep getting more women into institutions where they can and want to make a meaningful change, and we start appointing humans that are focused on improving the lives of their citizens. And hopefully, somewhere along this struggle of getting equal representation and realizing that that alone doesn't fix everything, we recognize that women are human, and that they need fair access to things like female reproductive care, safe abortions, safer births, quality neonatal care, acknowledgment and respect to accommodate to female physiology when building our societies (Invisible Women), and so on.
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While the results of better ("more equal") representation in institutional systems is a good thing, like this article points out it, it is not the only thing.

My core guiding statement in regards to feminism is just "women are human." All I would like the world to acknowledge is that women are human beings. I feel like when that happens, the rest should fall into place.

To me, equal representation in bureaucratic systems/political institutions is part of a two-pronged approach to getting people to recognize women are human. Since women are human, and since we make up roughly 50% of the human population, we absolutely should be included at least 50% on all governing an institutional systems. 50% of the opinions should be coming from one of the two halves of the human population. This is just one thing though.

Quote:Representation matters. But it is only the beginning.

As this article points out, equal representation in governing systems does not translate to fair treatment in the real world. That is a more difficult part of getting people to recognize that women are human. But I believe the first part, the equal representation in various institutions, is part of a start of how we get there.

So I do appreciate this article for calling out how just meeting a demographics quota in political institutions, it does not resolve female people's systematic oppression. We still have a long way to go in that. The equal representation of women in government can only show that women are human in terms of they are just as likely as men to be bureaucratic, corrupt, and not actually care about improving the lives of their constituents. Once we can move on from that point, we keep getting more women into institutions where they can and want to make a meaningful change, and we start appointing humans that are focused on improving the lives of their citizens. And hopefully, somewhere along this struggle of getting equal representation and realizing that that alone doesn't fix everything, we recognize that women are human, and that they need fair access to things like female reproductive care, safe abortions, safer births, quality neonatal care, acknowledgment and respect to accommodate to female physiology when building our societies (Invisible Women), and so on.

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