Hannah Shuttleworth
The Equality Act: an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which combines all of the equality enactments within Great Britain and provide comparable protections across all equality strands. Those explicitly mentioned by the Equality Act include age; disability; proposed, commenced or completed gender reassignment; race; religion or belief; sexual orientation and gender.
Gender? Gender you say?
Up to 3 million women and girls across the UK experience rape, domestic violence, stalking, or other violence each year. 1 in 5 people think it would be acceptable in certain circumstances for a man to hit or slap his female partner in response to her being dressed in revealing clothing in public. In the UK, the average man's £1 is a woman's 81p. Women who work, with or without children, spend 15 hours a week on average doing chores, while men spend only five.
Yet people proceed to believe sexism no longer exists.
The more educated on the matter you are, the clearer it becomes.
I used to be blinded by tradition, tricked into believing that women were good for only a mere few things: mothering and being beautiful. Not true. If I tell my Mum I'm trying a new recipe her reply shouldn't be "Oh you're going to make a great wife!", and I'm tired of the shocked expression upon peoples faces after I tell them I like maths or that I want to go into politics. Was is not women who fought to the death for the right to vote, and succeeded? Is it not a female who holds the title of the longest serving PM in over 150 years?
Furthermore, images of female beauty are being used as a weapon against women's advancement. I sense that women's progress has stalled. Eating disorders are becoming more and more