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Feminist activists stormed the red carpet at the Suffragette premiere. How far have things come for women in Britain in the past 100 years?
Posted by Channel 4 News on Thursday, 8 October 2015
Just after the tutorial, Becca sent me the link to this video. These feminist protesters took advantage of the media coverage the film would have and demonstrated a highly visible yet peaceful protest. I think it's important that protests like this are still happening in the age of social media/the internet. It's very fitting because the film was about how women were killed doing almost the same thing 100 years ago.
The video gives some pretty good statistics too;
- Out of 650 Mps, only 191 are women - not even half.
- There has never been a woman Chancellor of the Exchequer
- Less than a quarter of board members of FTSE 100 companies are women (the largest companies listed on the London Stock Exchange)
- In the last 10 years, the UK has fallen from 9th to 26th in the World Economic Forum's annual global gender gap ranking.
- Women working full times till get 9.4% less than men
I'd like to double check the statistics/see where they came from, but I think they're pretty shocking. It just shows that society still has a lot to achieve.
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