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What are the top three issues that feminists should unite to conquer?

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ControversialFerret · 18/06/2019 19:28

Asking for genuine thoughts and feedback. Disclaimer - not a journo but this is linked to some work I'm doing in the background on a voluntary basis. I'm not sharing further details (for obvious reasons!) but if anyone has concerns or questions, please PM me.

Feminism is so fragmented in terms of grass roots organisation - group A disagrees with group B and so on. However we know there will always be differences of opinion in activism and causes.

But if you had the chance to unify every feminist (and ally) in the UK behind three key causes/topics, what would they be and why?

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mindproject · 18/06/2019 20:43

Pay equality.

The payment of child maintenance to be enforced properly.

End prejudice and discrimination against single mothers.

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ControversialFerret · 18/06/2019 20:42

@Barracker - do you mind if I paraphrase what you've said? I have a meeting this week with an amazing feminist warrior lady and I think this argument articulates everything that we're currently struggling with!

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GottaGetUp · 18/06/2019 20:35

Free childcare

Is this the biggest barrier to women being able to work

Possibly, but also the proportion of unpaid work that women do in the home. As long as men refuse to do their share of the shit work, women will struggle to achieve equality in the workplace.

Ali1cedowntherabbithole · 18/06/2019 20:27

Free, safe healthcare. Including access to contraception, abortion rights and care during pregnancy until after birth.

Cultural and legal protection from rape and sexual assault.

Cultural and legal protection from violence.

Education. Women & girls to be literate and numerate.

SpartacusAutisticusAHF · 18/06/2019 20:15

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Barracker · 18/06/2019 20:11
  1. The right to legal recognition of the female biological sex class.
  2. The reinstatement of every right once afforded to the female biological sex class, which has, since 2004, been supplanted by the right of men to the legal fiction of being included inappropriately in that group. Including, but not limited to, the inalienable right for females to differentiate themselves from males.
  3. The dissolution of the false premise that to be of the biological sex female equates to possessing a 'gender identity' of female. The dissolution of 'gender identity' in law entirely, in fact.

No matter what else is on this thread, none of the women-centred causes will be possible to invoke, without a recognition of female to base them upon.

Without recognition of who is in the category female, there are no specific female rights or causes to fight for.

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ControversialFerret · 18/06/2019 20:10

Free childcare

Is this the biggest barrier to women being able to work - and soar in their careers when they do return rather than being sidelined? Genuine question (I have no kids). I've managed people of both sexes who are parents and it's always been women who seem to - disproportionately - bear the brunt of school holidays, illness, dentist appointments and so on.

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LoeweMulberry · 18/06/2019 20:00

Free childcare.
Having children is not a woman's responsibility , or it shouldn't be. Children are a result of MEN AND WOMEN, but it's seen as a lifestyle choice by some, and a lifestyle choice that always costs mothers more than it costs fathers. End that I say.

Tougher penalties for rapists. Needs to be overhauled. Needs to be some penalty in cases where the police don't think they can bring a case.

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ControversialFerret · 18/06/2019 19:55

equality in humanitarian action (shocking to hear charity 'insiders' saying it could take years/decades just to rid the international aid sector of the flagrant abuses, let alone get to within spitting distance of equality)

It's awful. All of the revelations about Oxfam have been very 'who guards the guards'? Let's not get started on the NSPCC...

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LordProfFekkoThePenguinPhD · 18/06/2019 19:47

Female infanticide and sex choice pre birth (not based on potential sex-based inherited diseases but on the nonsense ‘value’ of male children).

Women’s rights based on sex based characteristics.

Education - girls and also while communities where women and girls are disadvantaged on the basis of their sex.

meditrina · 18/06/2019 19:44

a) basic sanitation and clean water worldwide (the lack of it is a crying shame, and it hits women and girls harder because they are the ones to miss education to fetch it, and have more children than they might otherwise choose, simply to increase the chances of one or more making it to adulthood)
b) equality in humanitarian action (shocking to hear charity 'insiders' saying it could take years/decades just to rid the international aid sector of the flagrant abuses, let alone get to within spitting distance of equality)
c) universal education

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