h/t Quaerentia
This is quite a powerful video about equality, and here is the script:
“We’re equals, aren’t we 007? Yet it is 2011 and a man isstill likely to earn more money than a woman, even one doing the same job. You have a far better chance of enteringpolitical office or becoming a company director. As a man, you’re less likelyto be judged for promiscuous behaviour, which is just as well frankly, andhardly any chance of falling victim to sexual assault. And unlike the 30,000 women in the UK wholose their jobs annually due to pregnancy there would be virtually no risk toyour career if you chose to become a parent, or became one accidently. Assomeone with such a fondness for women I wonder if you have ever consideredwhat it would be like to be one.”
“The world has changed but the numbers remain stackedagainst us. Women are responsible for two-thirds of the work done worldwide yetearn only 10% of the total income and own 1% of the property. It’s not justabout money and power. Every year 70 million girls are deprived of even a basiceducation and a staggering 60 million are sexually assaulted on their way toschool. We’re afraid to walk the streets at night yet some of us are even moreafraid to return to our own homes. At least one in four are victims of domesticviolence. And every week two women in the UK are killed by a current or formerpartner. So, are we equals? Until the answer is yes, we must never stopasking.”