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March 07, 2013
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Lucy Parsons fought for the rights of the poor and disenfranchised in the face of an increasingly oppressive industrial economic system. Her radical activism challenged the racist and sexist sentiment in a time when it was assumed that women were biologically determined to stay at home barefoot and pregnant. This division of labour isn’t biologically wired, it’s an invention of capitalism.

Lucy Parsons fought for the rights of the poor and disenfranchised in the face of an increasingly oppressive industrial economic system. Her radical activism challenged the racist and sexist sentiment in a time when it was assumed that women were biologically determined to stay at home barefoot and pregnant. This division of labour isn’t biologically wired, it’s an invention of capitalism.

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January 18, 2013
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The Female Detective, the first women as a detective in a crime novel - 1864. Narrated by Miss Gladden

The Female Detective, the first women as a detective in a crime novel - 1864.
Narrated by Miss Gladden

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January 18, 2013
First women Pinkerton detective, possibly Kate Warne

First women Pinkerton detective, possibly Kate Warne

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April 04, 2012

Fawcett Society

Equal pay in the UK a big Joke on women and girls..

‘Girls have better educational outcomes than boys at school and are more likely to enter higher education and achieve good degrees, but women’s median hourly pay is 21% less than men’s”.

  • Women experience a full-time pay gap of 14.9% (calculated using Office for National Statistics figures, Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings 2011) 
  • 64% of low paid workers are women (Source: IPPR, Working Out of Poverty: A study of the low paid and the working poor, 2008)
  • Women’s average personal pensions are only 62% of the average for men (Source: National Equality Panel, An Anatomy of Economic Inequality in the UK, 2010)

Facts here Fawcett soceity

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