LeadHERship Conference Inspires Girls from Six Reading Schools
Female empowerment conference for six local Reading Borough schools. The LeadHERship Conference hosted for girls from six of Reading Borough’s secondary schools inspired and empowered the young female delegates on Friday 3rd October.
Organised by Leighton Park School and London-based charity, The Female Lead, the event provided opportunities for young women to gain insight and understanding of tackling everyday sexism and gain confidence in managing their own advocacy.
Keynote speaker, author and activist, Laura Bates shared her own experiences of day-to-day misogyny which motivated her to launch the Everyday Sexism Project in 2012 gathering the stories of thousands of women into the largest single dataset of its kind on this issue. Laura challenged her audience with shocking statistics about the imbalance of power, for example; only 18 of the UK’s 108 High Court Judges are female; only 28% of women have speaking roles in films but are three times more likely to appear with their clothes off; and in the National Gallery, which houses 2,300 works of art, only 27 are by women.
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