Samira: One of the biggest fights is actually women's unpaid care work burden. We're not even collecting data on how much women are doing and we need to know that so that we know how to allocate resources properly, she says. Caroline: Even just something as simple as a seatbelt but also things like medicines and drugs can make women unhealthy. Samira: How far there's a feminist fight in that you're trying to sort of get going by having set out some of these examples well yeah I mean obviously Samira I'm trying to fix it but practically but practically you know because some of these like drug trials for example.
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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