Gender Equality
How domestic labour is dangerous
Jackie Gulland examines the gendered history of social security policy including the dangers in recognising–or not–caring duties & domestic tasks as work.
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Celebrating South Africa’s National Women’s Day
This time last month, National Women’s Day was celebrated in South Africa. Today, Lynnda Wardle reflects personally on the cultural context of past activists.
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To celebrate the halfway mark in our year of dangerous women, we feature a powerful spoken word piece from award-winning poet Agnes Török – ‘Reclaim the Internet’.
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Adrienne Gerhäuser, Corinna Kawaters and the ‘Red Zora’
Katharina Karcher delves into the history of Red Zora, a German feminist group that claimed responsibility for forty-five arson attacks and bombings between the 1970s & 1990s.
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Rosemary Harris gives us a research-led creative take on the activism of Rosa May Billinghurst, a suffragette who would let nothing get in her way, including her own disability.
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On gendered speech patterns
‘Often all it takes to be a dangerous woman is to speak.’ Laura Waddell sounds a call to arms – speak up!
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The War on Women: And the Brave Ones Who Fight Back
Today we feature an extract from Sue Lloyd-Roberts’ book ‘The War on Women: And the Brave Ones Who Fight Back’, along with an introductory note from Allan Little.
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The Bradford Female Educational Institute
JY Saville tells of the Bradford Female Educational Institute, an exception at a time in history when working class women’s education was a dangerous idea.
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Victoria Pagan reflects on the dangers of participating in workplace inequality and how this perpetuates damaging organisational cultures.
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