Gender in world politics Gender is a structure of power because gender norms and gendered behaviours are means by which some people receive benefits, while others suffer harms. This is structured by our culture, which was and still is patriarchy. What is more, in terms of economy, men do more productive works, which means money creating job whereas women do more reproductive labour. This fact is structured by our society and culture and since women’s job doesn’t create money, their work is often devalued. Feminism is a controversial term as many people may think feminists are men haters. Language is not neutral and In the TED speech “why I am not a feminist”, Betsy Cairo pointed out that feminists see extreme differences between men and women and the use of gender qualifiers and this gender-binary vision wouldn’t lead to the solution. Instead, we can start by changing our language and use the term “equalist”. However, dropping “feminism” seems deny the identity of victimes to the social structure-woman. #metoo movement was created by Tarana Burke more than ten years ago and aims to help women, especially color women, who suffer from violence and abuse. The movement only gained such popularity and attention after the denouncement of a Hollywood white beautiful actress. Now more and more women are willing to speak up and people who did that initially are called “silence breaker”. However, before that, many women did the same thing but they were less believed. American magazine “Times” had their photo as its cover. Putting women from different background suggests the idea that each story is equal and all cases like this should be valid. On the other side, people in more advantaged situation being able to use their privileges to help disadvantaged groups and this may be a positive thing. The trigger of the whole movement can be considered to be the affair of Weinstein and also the election of Trump. More recently, some cases are no women-involved, which may indicate that it’s more of a men-problem, which is deeply structured by our culture : powerful men tend to abuse their power. Men are also victims. Talking about equality is easy but when it comes to law application, it becomes tricky. How to define the frontiere between flirting and sexual harassment ? It depends on who and in what kind of context. If people are put in the circumstances of power imbalance, it is harassment.