i thought it had all been sold with kids because i think there is a kind of assumption that things are much further along than they are. as you get to every generation also you know your priorities change now i'm obsessed with care later. where would i meet in real life second wave feminists well at the uh... the meeting great afterwards but i think it's also that because older women are sort of disposable in our society literally invisible right and so we don't have this sense of history.
International Women’s Week on Intelligence Squared. Change is never easy, it requires putting up a fight, going against the status quo, and if you’re a woman - this may require you to be difficult. In 2020 Helen Lewis, staff writer for The Atlantic, joined us on stage to discuss the lives of some of history’s complicated and contradictory fighters for female freedom, and their refusal to conform to societal expectations. Helen was joined by Caroline Criado Perez, journalist and author of Invisible Women, which is now also a podcast. And the conversation was chaired by broadcaster Samira Ahmed who had just won the employment tribunal she brought against the BBC in a dispute over equal pay. Together they examine why women who challenge the status quo are often seen as threatening or intimidating and why the fight for change is far from perfect.
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