By Freya Tulloch
The Secretary-General has prioritized gender parity as “a moral duty and an operational necessity”
An October 2015 research report indicated that at any intergovernmental meeting on disarmament, approximately one quarter of participants are likely to be women. In 2014, seventeen experts were invited to speak at the United Nations Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons on autonomous weapons systems, and none of them were women [1]. The male dominated field of disarmament has meant that often even when women are included in discussions, their “positions and ideas are often forced to conform to the dominant perspective — underpinned by notions of violent masculinity — in order to be taken seriously” [2].
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