One year into the United Nations’ new strategy for gender parity among staff members at all levels, a gendered backlash has emerged, even as parity has been achieved at the highest echelons of the world body. The staff unions’ argument is that the actions to reach gender parity by 2028 violate Article 101 of the UN Charter, repeated word for word in the Staff Regulations, which make “the highest standards of efficiency, competence, and integrity” the “paramount consideration” in recruiting UN staff. Bibi Sherifa Khan, the president of the United Nations Staff Union, covering approximately 20,000 staff members recruited nationally and internationally, said in an interview with PassBlue that there are different perspectives among staff members on the parity strategy.