Helen: The problem of feminism is that you have to break away from all your work to do it. It's really hard to find the time to do campaigning when you're doing a whole load of unpaid work on top of your main already probably quite tough job and so I think that's a that's a huge thing. When I hear politicians with peens to like the traditional family we need isn't it brilliant in Asian countries where women are choosing not to get married right because they would rather have a job than have families.
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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