Until you get proper divorce law reform women that do not exist as full citizens right but even this before the vote to the very basic level before that you were legally a ward of your father. It's not until 1870 you get the married women's property act which means that women can sign contracts and things like that for themselves. In Saudi Arabia in the guardianship system right the idea that women are not full citizens under the law they belong to someone else they are essentially chattel.
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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