They ask thee for a pronouncement. Say: Allah hath pronounced for you concerning distant kindred. If a man die childless and he have a sister, hers is half the heritage, and he would have inherited from her had she died childless. And if there be two sisters, then theirs are two-thirds of the heritage, and if they be brethren, men and women, unto the male is the equivalent of the share of two females. Allah expoundeth unto you, so that ye err not. Allah is Knower of all things. Koran 4:3&15&19&20&22-25&34 &127-129&176
This is Kelly. Killed with her two young daughters in March last year. She was 40. This is Ibida, found dead at home in Leeds in September. She was 39. They are just 2 of the 118 women who were killed over the past 18 months where men have been charged or convicted. Then last month another woman was found dead. She was called Sarah. Tonight: What can be done to stop this becoming someone else’s story? Tonight: How Safe Are We? ITV 2021
The loneliest woman in the world is a woman without a close woman friend. George Santayana
‘Woman’ is not a costume. ‘Woman’ is not an idea in a man’s mind. The inclusive language that calls female people ‘menstruators’ and ‘people with vulvas’ strikes many women as dehumanising and demeaning. J K Rowling
It started with one woman’s act of defiance. Challenging one of the world’s most oppressive regimes by refusing to wear her hijab. Others soon followed. This is the story of women risking their freedom by taking on the rulers of Iran. Iran Unveiled: Taking on the Ayatollahs, ITV 2022
Women are at the forefront of unprecedented opposition to Iran’s ruling clerics after forty years in power. They face a brutal crackdown. ibid.
The White Wednesdays campaign is gaining momentum. ibid.
One by one the Iranian authorities have silenced most of the women protesters of Revolution Street. ibid.
Iceland: 1975 women’s strike … The first country to democratically elect a woman president. Michael Moore, Where to Invade Next, 2016
I don’t want to feel a whole spectrum of sexual harassment every time I go out. I really want to demonstrate exactly what it feels like. Undercover: Sexual Harassment, Ellie Flynn reporting, Channel 4 2022
71% of women of all ages in the UK have experienced some form of sexual harassment in a public space. 1 in 4 women have been raped or sexual assaulted as an adult. ibid. caption
I want to call them and confront them about why they’ve sent me these pictures. ibid.
Over half of girls have experienced public sexual harassment while wearing school uniform. ibid.
1 in 10 women have had their drink spiked on a night out. ibid.
Since 2006 a bloody war between Mexican authorities and the drug cartels has been raging which has so far claimed the lives of 300,000 people. Over 3,000 women are murdered every year. That’s ten a day. One every two and a half hours. An estimated twenty-four thousand women and girls are missing. Women at War: Mexico, Sky 2023
‘Although the escalation of violence against women and girls in Mexico has reached critical levels, it has bee normalised for so long that it risks being made invisible.’ ibid. International Rescue Committee