I think I've seen a thread about this somewhere but wanted to highlight as they only need another £1,215 to raise the total needed to mount the legal challenge!
I think this would send an incredibly powerful message to institutions who are failing to consider women when they make decisions.
In April 2013, the Bank of England announced that they were removing the only female historical figure from our banknotes and replacing her with another white man. We are challenging them under the 2010 Equality Act which states that in every decision a public body takes, they must pay due regard to the need to eliminate discrimination and promote equality. The Bank of England has refused to provide any evidence that they have done this and have claimed that the figures on banknotes are irrelevant to equality.
This may be a small issue. But a sexist culture where women are routinely overlooked, undermined and abused is made up of small issues, and if we want to tackle that culture we can't ignore them small issues. Small begets big.
So if you think it's important that women's achievements have historically been ignored, if you think it's important that women still don't have equal pay, if you think it's important that women's voices are drowned out in public debate, HELP US CHANGE THAT.
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