Is There a Glass Ceiling?

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Women are 40% more likely to be seriously injured in a car crash than men. They're also 50% more chance of being misdiagnosed if they have a heart attack. Ohwi says there is a reason for men to care about these things as much as women. The 13-year-old thinks it's partly about the way we communicate. She believes that 100 balls still don't have a woman on them.

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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