Feminism in this day and age not nearly as shocking as sexism

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Feminism in this day and age not nearly as
shocking as sexism

• Its been over half a decade since the MeToo
  movement began making waves and three years since
  flexible working simplified keeping a career
  postpartum. So why are we still campaigning for
  gender equality?
• Simply put, in spite of appearances, there has
  been little change.
• Online movements denouncing the, often sexual,
  abuse of women and girls have become driving
  forces in the fight to be heard but, as our own
  CrimeNotAComplement initiative demonstrates,
  being heard does not necessarily equate to being
  listened to.
• Statistics released by Charlie Health show the
  opposite, with the majority of victims having
  previously met their aggressor, and these
  aggressors being substantially unlikely to face
  any legal repercussions. For the less than ten
  percent of aggressors which do face legal
  repercussions, the survivors they leave in their
  wakes report dismissal, purposely avoiding public
  spaces, and self-blame. As documented as this
  reality is, glancing at certain headlines would
  have you easily convinced of the opposite-an
  alleged woke world gone mad where men are
  terrified to do so much as move.

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• Being unable to act without suffering is
  something women around the world are all too
  familiar with, no matter how they conform to
  patriarchy. Take the workplace for example
  recent investigations published in the Harvard
  Business Review detail presumptions of too much
  family responsibility and impending menopause
  towards any woman of middle-age, whilst Laura
  Bates Everyday Sexism recounts instances of
  career debutantes being denied career progression
  by reason of an ability to bare children in years
  to come. Judged on everything but personal merit,
  such discrimination seems insurmountable. Without
  a commitment to community-based change, it may
  well be.
• Community-based change is indispensable in the
  fight against gender-based discrimination because
  everybody experiences sexism differently. For a
  programme participant in the USA, community-based
  change could resemble initiatives to combat the
  uptake in online misogyny for a programme
  participant located in Guinea, that same change
  could take the form of supporting continued
  education.

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• Although differing in many respects, all local
  issues present potentially life-altering
  consequences for those who experience them
  reminding us that sexism is not a simple abstract
  descriptor, but collections of behaviour that
  undermine the safety and integrity of those they
  impact.
• Were talking about sexism precisely because many
  others arent and we want to invite you to join
  the conversation.
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