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History of Ideas: Virginia Woolf

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The Impact of Male Privilege on Women

wolf discovers when she tries to enter buildings in oxbridge from which women are excluded including libraries. All the books that she asked for about women are written by men because this is a man's version of knowledge. She can't escape from the world of male privilege and so wants to get a broader view to try and understand the impact of this male privileged use a more contemporary term 'privilege'

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Speaker 2

mean similarly i would say that the fertility packages that are now being offered by a lot of um corporate employers where they will offer um female employees egg freezing um all that law for surrogacy um i think this was initially something that became popular in silicon valley and it's now spread to london and you can find it in in finance um organizations and so on and i think honey they're not doing it for you you know no employer is offering to pay for egg freezing just like for your own good your own well-being they're doing it and i hope that you will delay starting a family because they know that once you do you're going to offer them you're going to be you know a substandard employee in a whole bunch of ways and so they're hoping that you'll put it off and if you get there and actually the eggs aren't viable or you haven't found a partner or any of these millions of millions of things that can go wrong which mean that you don't actually end up having children at all your employer isn't going to care they're not going to be there you know then like they're they're not going to be there to answer to you for having encouraged you down this down this path well and you

Speaker 1

know i'm in the backyard of the silicon valley so all of the big tech companies offer not all of many of them i have to check because i actually showed my film exploitation at at google so on the google campus i showed the film and i was able to talk with some of the you know pretty high up leadership people at google and at the time they were not offering fertility preservation to their female employees as a benefit and i strongly encourage them not to because you're basically you know risking your young female employees health and you know you're giving them again false assurance that this is insurance on their fertility um so i'll have to go back and visit with them and see if it's still not because everybody else like apple and linked in and facebook you know i think zoom even you know we're on the zoom platform i you know i think they offer this as a paid benefit to their female employees and people think it's good because they're well i go why won't you just read and and understand that it's one it's risky to women's health and two it has a high failure rate it's like it

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