Are Women Asking for Pay Rises as Much as Men?

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Research shows that women are asking for pay rises as much as men. But they're less likely to get them, though. We don't question male behaviour because it's the norm,. And i think that's a really interesting analogue. A study found that actually, women are quite good at assessing their own intelligence - but men of average intelligence think that they're more intelligent than two thirds of people. If you apply it to the ar the work place, and who is asking for promotions and who is asks for pay increases, you know, you start to think, well, may be a system that is designed around leaving it up to them to decide who deserves one.

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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