Comments on: International Women’s Day: One more push?

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By: Chris_Kubiak

Chris_Kubiak — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 13:33:29 +0000

Thanks. I want to make a related but oblique point about gender fatique. Whatever happened to gender neutral language in public life? Recently, I’ve heard references to climate change as man-made or BA strikes as an issue of undermanning. Is this too the product of gender fatique and the sense that the war has been or the way that things labelled ‘PC’ are seen as somehow silly or whiney?

By: Jeremy Roche

Jeremy Roche — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 11:30:13 +0000

My first ever participation in a blog (I think this is excellent by the way) but after I read this I came across a wonderful and appropriate quote from Mary Robinson in Sunday’s Observer – “In a society where the rights and potential of women are constrained no man can be truly free. He may have power, but he will not have freedom.”

By: Sara MacKian

Sara MacKian — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:03:08 +0000

You’re right, Liz – complacency seems to have set in, and that is a real let down to those women featured in that documentary, and all the other women who have put their heads above the parapet.

A let down for society as a whole.

Thanks for you comment

By: Liz Tilley

Liz Tilley — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 10:02:24 +0000

I’m very pleased you’ve raised this issue Sara. Watching the wonderful new BBC4 documentary series last night ‘Women’, I was struck once again by how much progress has been made for equality and women’s rights since the mid 20th century. The women who were interviewed for the programme remembered with fondness and humour the exciting, if difficult period of intense activism that they participated in, to bring about changes that would benefit large numbers of women across the western world. It is easy to forget the sheer weight of effort required to alter major power imbalances between different groups in society. Many of those women in the 60s and 70s put their head above the parapet to say things that large sections of society simply didn’t want to hear. However, some of those interviewed for last night’s programme were also dismayed by how complacent we have become. The figure you quote in your piece is truly shocking, and should remind us that this is not an issue that has gone away.