International Women’s Day: women’s rights on labour wards, pensions, an end to austerity – what we’ll be fighting for in 2019
International Women’s Day 2019, a day celebrating progress and demanding equality, comes after a seismic 12 months. From the growth of #MeToo to Gina Martin’s successful campaign to make upskirting illegal, the power of activism been demonstrated across the world. Meanwhile, a number of campaigns are gathering steam and will be getting louder (and louder) throughout 2019.
IWD is marked by celebration, protest and dialogue. It’s a chance to ask each other: where are we? Where do we need to go? How can we get there? In that spirit, i spoke to campaigners, politicians and changemakers about what they’ll be fighting for in 2019. “Waspi is a campaign group representing 3.8 million women born in the 1950s who were not given adequate notice of changes to the state pension age, with serious consequences.
“Waspi is a campaign group representing 3.8 million women born in the 1950s who were not given adequate notice of changes to the state pension age, with serious consequences.
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