i wondered how far there's a feminist fight in that you're trying to sort of get going by having set out some of these examples. And i'm particularly interested in some of the issues that you looked at in your book. We looked at, you know, how scientific research is based on such gendered data that it's actually making women unhealthy. I agree with helen that one of the biggest fights is at she women's unpaid care work burden,. It is at the heart of so many inequalities, including the gender gapinincluding a, the health gap actually affects women's health.
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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