Feminism and the Imen

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Tv is one of the last trees where it's acceptable to discriminate against people based on how they look if you're a woman. There are really viceral challenges for all women in the medio, and i think t v, just because of its nature, the perceptions around age and appearance and race are particularly poignant. It can't just be about getting more women round the table. It needs to be about getting women from a didiverse variety of backgrounds who really represent the range of the female experience. Tank you. I'm a journalist. You'd think it's an extra layer of illegitimacy of questioning that undermines your confidence, your sense of entitlement to be there,. That

Anne-Marie Slaughter is the Washington power player who upset the feminist applecart. At the peak of her career — as first female Director of Policy Planning at the US State Department — she turned her back on her dream job with Hillary Clinton in order to spend more time with her teenage sons. How, cried her contemporaries, could she have sacrificed her high-powered career for her family? Slaughter’s ensuing article for The Atlantic, ‘Why Women Still Can’t Have It All’, went viral, sparking furious debate about how men and women juggle their working lives. Having it all, Slaughter argued, remained a mirage. Women who managed to be both mothers and top professionals were either ‘superhuman, rich or self-employed’. On January 26, Anne-Marie Slaughter came to the Intelligence Squared stage, together with Amanda Foreman, award-winning historian and presenter of the recent BBC documentary series The Ascent of Woman, which charts the role of women in society over 10,000 years. They were joined by...

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