Caroline Criado Perez

The fact is that worth is a matter of opinion, and opinion is informed by culture.

gyms are often a classic example of a male-biased public space masquerading as equal access.

When planners fail to account for gender, public spaces become male spaces by default

When planners fail to account for gender, public spaces become male spaces by default

The reality is that half the global population has a female body. Half the global population has to deal on a daily basis with the sexualised menace that is visited on that body.

24 October 1975 came to be known by Icelandic men as ‘the long Friday’.1 S

There is no such thing as a woman who doesn’t work. There is only a woman who isn’t paid for her work.

This imbalance starts early (girls as young as five do significantly more household chores than their brothers) and increases as they get older.

And as women have increasingly joined the paid labour force men have not matched this shift with a comparative increase in their unpaid work:

a Finnish study26 found that single women recovered better from heart attacks than married women