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The Equality Illusion : the Truth About Women and Men Today by Banyard, Kat, 1982- is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Today It Is Widely Believed That Feminism Has Achieved Its Aims, And That Women And Men Have Achieved Equality. This, Quite Simply, Is An Illusion. Women Working Full Time In The Uk Are Paid On Average Seventeen Per Cent Less Than Men. Domestic Violence Causes More Death And Disability Among Women Aged Sixteen To Forty-four Than Cancer Or Traffic Accidents. Of Parliamentary Seats Across The Globe, Only Fifteen Per Cent Are Held By Women And Fewer Than Twenty Per Cent Of Uk Mps Are Women. The Number Of Men Paying For Sex Acts Doubled During The 1990s In The Uk. From Body Image To Work To Education To Violence To Sex, Women In The Twenty-first Century Are Still On An Unequal Footing With Men. In The Equality Illusion, Campaigner Kat Banyard Has Written An Alarm Call, Arguing Passionately That Feminism Is One Of The Most Urgent And Relevant Social Justice Campaigns Today. Structuring The Book Around A Normal Day, Banyard Sets Out The Major Issues For Twenty-first-century Feminism And Explores How They Are Woven Into Our Everyday Lives. She Also Challenges How We Think About Choice And Empowerment - Ideas That Have Been So Successfully Co-opted By Both The Beauty Industry And The Sex I

Who reads The Equality Illusion : the Truth About Women and Men Today?

Author

Banyard, Kat, 1982-

Publisher

London: Faber and Faber

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9780571246267

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Sociology, Gender Studies, Social Science

Rating

4.03 / 5 (488 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13