BUILDING GLOBAL BRIDGES AND CROSSING EGALITARIAN MACROCOSMS-THE ENGENDERING SINE QUA NON

Gender equality and sustainable development are interspersed tropes of cultural praxis since time immemorial (since
the time Lady Macbeth’s name has not been probed into or Nation being equated with mother). The dichotomy of
naturalizing women and feminizing nature with identical yet silenced forces of control, reproduction and nurture puts
to the multifaceted question of whether the male’s control really masquerades as protection for the female (a territory
to be conquered, dominated or shielded against inequalities) and the country (against anthropocentrism, globalization
and biomedical apocalypse). On one hand, it cements the metonymic male and the metaphorical female and on the
other hand, poses whether technology, as a social context, mired in contemporary social relations and ambits, can
come to the rescue. Through a diagnostic and qualitative approach of content analysis, it explores the productive role
of gender in the building of sustainable cultures, reboots the fundamental interconnectedness of gender equality and
sustainable development. Additionally, it interrogates the workable spaces of the dehumanizing gender discrimination
as rightly perceived by United Nations unpacking the irony of gender inequality. This is also critical in elucidating the
causality through the stances of capitalism and Structural-functionalism.