{"id":273996,"date":"2019-04-25T06:40:35","date_gmt":"2019-04-25T10:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMiP2h0dHBzOi8vd3d3LnJ0ZS5pZS9uZXdzL3dvcmxkLzIwMTkvMDQyNS8xMDQ1NTUwLWV0aGlvcGlhLXdvbWVuL9IBH2h0dHBzOi8vd3d3LnJ0ZS5pZS9hbXAvMTA0NTU1MC8?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-14T11:41:05","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T15:41:05","slug":"rte-looked-at-ethiopias-fight-over-gender-equality-and-patriarchal-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/273996","title":{"rendered":"RT\u00c9 looked at Ethiopia\u2019s fight over gender equality and patriarchal power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In April 2019, RT\u00c9\u2019s Jackie Fox reported on Ethiopia\u2019s culture toward women and efforts to shift a patriarchal society in the shadow of global #MeToo talk, after Abiy Ahmed\u2019s cabinet gender parity had drawn international praise.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-466359\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Women-and-Children-Severely-Affected-Amid-Ongoing-Humanitarian-Crises.jpeg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"RT\u00c9 looked at Ethiopia\u2019s fight over gender equality and patriarchal power\" \/>\n<p>Half the ministers being women never automatically meant safety in homes, workplaces, or conflict zones. Fox\u2019s framing pushed past brochure feminism into attitudes, law, and everyday risk.<\/p>\n<p>Abiy Ahmed\u2019s regime later faced harder tests on women\u2019s rights amid war and displacement. Early soft-power coverage still matters as a baseline of what outsiders were willing to celebrate.<\/p>\n<p>As society\/rights reference, the RT\u00c9 piece is a dated mirror. Gender equality speeches age quickly when violence against women stays structural.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/news\/world\/2019\/0425\/1045550-ethiopia-women\/\">RT\u00c9<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopia&#8217;s fight for gender equality&nbsp;&nbsp;RTE.ieRT\u00c9&#8217;s Jackie Fox reports on Ethiopia&#8217;s culture towards women and its efforts to change from a patriarchal society following the #MeToo movement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":466359,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-273996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Women-and-Children-Severely-Affected-Amid-Ongoing-Humanitarian-Crises.jpeg?fit=1200%2C720&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-19hi","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273996"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":601443,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273996\/revisions\/601443"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}