A rainy start to the morning saw us setting up under a marquee, well supplied with hot drinks and pastries, ready to celebrate all the amazing women in Universities and worldwide for the Women’s Strike and International Women’s Day.
The women’s picket choir was in fine voice, singing those classics such as ‘girls just wanna have pensions’.
There were displays reminding people of the emotional and reproductive workloads that women routinely undertake which are completely overlooked in terms of salary, promotion and workload models.
We stood in solidarity with the women of Yarlswood who are on hunger strike.
Today was about protest, about women, about rights. About fairness. And about pensions of course. The proposed pension changes will disproportionately impact women (as has the move to career average already).
#womenwhoinspire #iwd2018