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Is the bulk of the work done for feminism?

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GinaCarbonara · 17/10/2019 11:28

This is what my boyfriend has said to me. I disagree, but I suppose it depends what we both mean by 'bulk'. What I would really like to show him is some statistics, but I can't find much that isn't heavily subjective online.
He's aware that a lot of his views on various things are down to his upbringing and is very open to different viewpoints, so I'd like to be able to get mine across better.

Can anyone point me in the right direction?

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Inebriati · 17/10/2019 11:33

The number of women being murdered by their partners recently rose from 2 to 3 per week.
www.bbc.com/news/uk-49459674

''Falling convictions are putting people at risk of “serial rapists” because attackers are not being deterred, the Victims' Commissioner has warned.''
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/08/28/falling-rape-convictions-putting-people-risk-serial-attackers/

90 women and their children are turned away from domestic violence shelters every day, because there aren't enough beds for women and children.
www.womensaid.org.uk/what-we-do/campaigning-and-influencing/campaign-with-us/sos/

And don't forget, women are losing the legal protection of the definition of sex, as self ID is introduced by stealth.

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GinaCarbonara · 17/10/2019 11:49

Thank you, this is the sort of thing I was looking for. I find it so hard to get my viewpoint across sometimes and always worry I'm going to come across as overly emotional without any real evidence or facts to back it up.

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Inebriati · 17/10/2019 12:17

There are more stats if you need them, look at the situation for women in hospital wards, psychiatric units and prisons.

They are housing convicted sex offenders and pedophiles in prisons that have mother and baby units, on the declaration that they are trans. No gender recognition certificate is needed - this is what I meant by 'self ID by stealth'.

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/why-was-convicted-paedophile-allowed-to-move-to-a-female-jail-nmpbfm272

www.bbc.com/news/uk-47434730

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Findumdum1 · 17/10/2019 12:24

Can't help with the stats, but I used to think this when I was one of the ladettes in the student union bar. Then I entered the work forces, had children, and now I feel very differently ...

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Inebriati · 17/10/2019 12:28

54,000 women every year lose their job when their employer finds out they are pregnant.
www.equalityhumanrights.com/en/managing-pregnancy-and-maternity-workplace/pregnancy-and-maternity-discrimination-research-findings

Women returning to work after a child more likely to face discrimination than they were ten years ago, says Equality and Human Rights Commission report
www.theguardian.com/money/2015/jul/24/maternity-leave-discrimination-54000-women-lose-jobs-each-year-ehrc-report

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snowbear66 · 17/10/2019 12:31

There is still a gender pay gap in the UK-
A quarter of companies and public sector bodies have a pay gap of more than 20% in favour of men... no significant improvement in the gender pay gap between 2017 and 2018 with the gap shrinking slightly from 9.7% to 9.6%.
Almost eight in 10 companies still pay their male employees more, leading one MP to say Britain still has a “long way to go” to tackle the gap.
Only 1.7% reported rapes being prosecuted in England.

Would your boyfriend be prepared to look at the state of women's rights outside of Europe? Just one example-
What about the genocide of Chinese female babies from the 1980'?
Western analysts asserted that the 1981 ratio
figures indicated that approximately 230,000 female babies had been
"lost" that year...Reporting that some areas had disproportions
between boys and girls of 5:1, the People's Daily noted that the major reason for the skew was "man-made: the drowning and abandonment of baby girls."Up through early 1990 reports of
female infanticide have continued to come out of China;..One government official warned that men might outnumber women by 40 million in 20 years.

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