The One Contribution Idhave Made to Feminism

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Legal Tom is a new podcast from Apple's iReport. The show looks at the role of women in society, and how feminism has helped or hurt them. This week we talk about why girls seem to have an advantage over boys when it comes to school results. We also look at whether there are any real differences between male and female brains as compared to other animals.

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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