“In her soft Scottish accent she recalls the battles she’s fought during her leadership to debate (and here she performs camp air quotes) “women’s issues”: before she can discuss a problem, she must first prove it exists.” “Whether equal pay, violence against women, sexual harassment … I’ve had to grit my teeth through tedious talk… Continue reading
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Theme #1 for Feminist Fact Friday It was hard to decide where to kick things off for Feminist Fact Friday. With so many spheres in which inequality reigns where to start? The World Economic Forum’s 2018 Global Gender Gap report is an excellent place to get a well-rounded view on global inequality. 149 nations are… Continue reading
Introduction to Feminist Fact Friday
“We have to free half of the human race, the women, so that they can help to free the other half.” Emmeline Pankhurst, The Suffragette: The History of the Women’s Militant Suffrage Movement I’ve been thinking about activism for weeks, trying to work out how to be at least a little more active in 2019…. Continue reading
Being a woman costs
Thanks to the pink tax and the tampon tax (and oh so many other things) Following a post I wrote earlier this week on the reasons I want to start investing – and ahead of a personal project I’m close to kicking off – I’ve been doing some more research into inequality. In my last… Continue reading