<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[The Dish]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[http://dish.andrewsullivan.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[Andrew Sullivan]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://dish.andrewsullivan.com/author/sullydish/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[Aid And Equal&nbsp;Rights]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p>Jessica Mack <a href="http://www.genderacrossborders.com/2011/05/05/saving-the-second-sex-or-how-aid-fails-women-a-conversation-with-william-easterly/" target="_self">interviewed</a> William Easterly about women and international aid:</p> <blockquote> <p>The battle in American history, which is also a story of development –  development is not just about Africa – has been the battle to correct  the double standard. Men are not superior to women; white people don’t  have one set of rights, and black people another. We white males would  prefer to forget that this was very recent in our own society, and this  is why we’re so happy to transfer our gaze to some far away society that  has some more extreme problem. Confronting that history honestly makes us realize that this <em>is </em>the  fight: to keep eroding, eroding, and eroding that double standard.</p> </blockquote>]]></html></oembed>