Women forty seven percent more likely to be seriously injured in a car crash than men. Women fifty percent more Likely to be misdiagnosed to have a heart attack then men. Men are shocked by those statistics as women are because they don't want you know their mom to get into a car crash and die because the car was designed around a fiftieth percentile male. The best thing that i've noticed in my lifetime is seeing my generation of men in brace fatherhood, carrying their babies and slings and changing nappies. We're kept out of delivery rooms and we can't ever emphasize how important it is.
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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