Do You See Yourself as a Difficult Woman?

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Aseem Malhotra says she doesn't mind being called a difficult woman. She believes that women should be able to work in the "difficult spaces" In her new book, Aseem writes about mary stopes and emmeline pankhurst. The suffragettes would not have achieved as much if they'd had a more meek person in charge of them,. We have to confront that in our history," said Malhotra.

Helen Lewis argues that feminism's success is down to complicated, contradictory, imperfect women, who fought each other as well as fighting for equal rights. Too many of these pioneers have been whitewashed or forgotten in our modern search for feel-good, inspirational heroines. It's time to reclaim the history of feminism as a history of difficult women. To find out more about the book click here: https://www.waterstones.com/book/difficult-women/helen-lewis/9781784709730

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