The Guardian view on a year in feminism: 2014 was a watershedThe power of social media can be a new

The Guardian view on a year in feminism: 2014 was a watershedThe power of social media can be a new force for good for gender equality“In a year of growing income extremes, when the gap between the richest, the poorest and the rest seems more fixed than ever, there is one welcome advance in an area of established inequality. As Rebecca Solnit argued on these pages on Tuesday, women’s voices are assuming unprecedented authority. A couple of weeks earlier a Time magazine writer claimed, even more boldly, that 2014 was the best year for women “since the dawn of time”. Both writers rested their case on the strength and effectiveness of protests at violence against women, from shootings and campus rape to Twitter trolling and misogynist postings on social media. They make a point that is both important and remarkable. Important, because the weight of these protests is setting new behavioural norms; remarkable, less because they are happening now than that they have not happened before.”Read the full piece here -- source link

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