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Around 52% of the world's population are female yet most of the positions of power are occupied by men.

 "The higher you go, the fewer women there are"

"We have evolved, but it seems to me that our ideas of gender have not evolved"

"We must raise our daughters differently, we must also raise our sons differently"

"We teach girls to shrink themselves, make themselves smaller. We say to girls, you can have ambition, but not too much. You should aim to be successful, but not too sucessful - otherwise you would threaten the man."

"Why should a woman's success be a threat to a man?"

"Because I am female, I am expected to aspire to marriage"

"The problem with gender is that is prescribes how we should be, rather than how we are"

"We raise girls to see each other as competitors - not for jobs or accomplishments, which I think would be a good think - but for the attention of men"

"We priase girls for virginity, but we don't praise boys for virginity"

Adichie, C. (2013). We Should All Be Feminists. [video] Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hg3umXU_qWc [Accessed 26 Jan. 2015].