Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Introduction
The stories in Do It Like a Woman come from women who have attained
high levels of education, and further to this have undertaken roles and
responsibilities which have given them high profiles in national media.
There are stories from women who have achieved record-breaking feats
of physical power, for example Felicity Aston, who was not only the first
woman to cross Antarctica alone, but the first person to ski alone across
Antarctica using only personal muscle power. With apparently so much
being accomplished by individual women across the world, one might
wonder what need there is for a book exhorting more change?
It was in 2013 that Criado-Perez took on a campaign with the highest
profile of any of her projects to date. With the removal of the image of
Elizabeth Fry from the reverse of the Bank of England 5 note, in favour
of one of Winston Churchill, all images on British currency were of men,
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References
Dragas, M. (2012) Gender Relations in Daily Newspaper Headlines: the
Representation of Gender Inequality with Respect to the Media
Representation of Women. Studia Humana 1(2), 67-78
Martin, C.E. & Valenti, V. (2013) #FemFuture: Online Revolution,
New Feminist Solutions 8. Barnard Centre for Research on Women.
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Documentation
Holmes, R 2015, What does it mean to Do It Like A Woman in a sexist
society?, New Statesman, Retrieved from
http://www.newstatesman.com/2015/05/she-bangs-drums
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