The government is full of praise for the new gender-equality organisation, so why the delay in helping to fund it?
Theresa May, the home secretary, said there were few better investments than investing in women last night at a cheery launch party for UN Women in the UK. Women would be at the centre of the coalition's development efforts, she said. People cheered, there was even a song. So why won't the government commit any money to it?
UN Women has been up and running since January 1. What's more, its creation, from the remnants of four separate bureaucracies in the UN, was years in the making and the UK government, under a different leadership admittedly, was one of its biggest backers. The UK is still on the executive committee. What's going on?
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