Are Women Having Enough Babies?

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After the first wald war, with so many men dead, there was a big swell about what about our birthrate? And one of the things that was held against a women in the work force. When the returning tommies came home, it was now go ao, go back out and go ho. Go back into the home and do your duty and have loads of kids to repopulate britain. Then overlaid with all these ideas about er the right people having children and ther you can draw a thread from that to to day right where far right men on the internet, and some women, talk a lot about white genicide - which has driven several mass shootings

In this episode of the Intelligence Squared podcast we are joined by Helen Lewis, staff writer for the Atlantic, who claims that too many pioneers of women’s rights have been whitewashed or forgotten because society likes its heroines to be cuddly and safe. Lewis believes it’s time to reclaim the history of feminism as a history of difficult women, and on Tuesday February 25 she came to the Intelligence Squared stage to set out the arguments of her new book, Difficult Women: A History of Feminism in 11 Fights. She appeared in conversation with the feminist campaigner Caroline Criado Perez and BBC broadcaster Samira Ahmed.

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