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With International women's day fast approaching I thought I would share some shocking information I came across this week. I read an article written by  The Guardian  that changed my whole perception on gender equality. I didn't want to believe the headline and thought 'yeah this is a classic case of manipulating data for a headline' but after researching, unfortunately, this wasn't the case... 'Nine out of 10 people found to be biased against women'  the headline screamed at me. The article summed up data gathered from the  United Nations Development Programme . This data uncovered the shocking scale of women's rights globally. It analysed the data of 75 countries containing over 80% of the worlds population. It found that almost 90% of people are biased against women. 90%. I knew it was bad, but I didn't realise it was quite that bad. In the UK and US this figure was not so high but still over half of people held those views.  It also f...

Womens' equality has come a long way but it has further to go. The #MeToo movement over the past year has again highlighted gender inequality when it comes to sexual harassment in the workplace and emphasises a need for the strengthening of laws surrounding these issues. Currently only 1/3 of MPs are women and many STEM subjects see similar inequality. We have now entered our second year of gender pay gap reporting and unfortunately the numbers do not equate. In 2017 a report by the world economic forum predicted that it would take another 100years until the gender gap closes. Inequality is seen by many as a problem in the past. But as recently at 1991 rape in marriage was first considered a crime. Fawcett Society is the leading charity campaigning for womens rights in great Britain. They state: 'Our vision is a society in which women and girls in all their diversity are equal and truly free to fulfill their potential creating a stronger, happier, better future ...