Helen Pankhurst has continued the work of her great grandmother and is a women’s activist and senior advisor to CARE international, working in the UK and Ethiopia, is trustee of ActionAid and regularly speaks at Women’s Day events every year. It is essential reading for anyone who wants to explore one of the most central and pressing conversations of our time. The voices of both pioneers and ordinary women – in all their diversity – are woven into the analysis which ends with suggestions about how to better understand and strengthen feminist campaigning and with aims for the future.Ĭombining historical insight with inspiring argument, Deeds not Words reveals how far women have come since the suffragettes, how far we still have to go, and how we might get there.
She celebrates landmark successes, little-known victories, where progress has stalled or reversed, looking at politics, money, identity, violence, culture and social norms. In 2018, on the centenary of one of the greatest steps forward for women – the Fourth Reform Act, which saw propertied women over 30 gain the vote for the first time – suffragette descendant and campaigner Helen Pankhurst charts how the lives of women in the UK have changed over the last 100 years. Showing Editorial results for helen pankhurst. Why, at the present rate will we have to wait in Britain until 2069 for the gender pay gap to disappear? Why, in 2015, did 11% of women lose their jobs due to pregnancy discrimination? Why, globally, has 1 in 3 women experienced physical or sexual violence? 303 Helen Pankhurst Photos and Premium High Res Pictures - Getty Images CREATIVE EDITORIAL VIDEO All Sports Entertainment News Archival Browse 303 helen pankhurst stock photos and images available, or start a new search to explore more stock photos and images.
Despite huge progress since the suffragette campaigns and wave after wave of feminism, women are still fighting for equality.
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