End Discrimination against Women

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Discrimination against Women

Women are ignored.
Women aged over 50 are heeded even less.
In this world by, for and about men only. 

CO-CHAIRS 

All political type jobs will be co-chaired,
with 1 man and 1 woman, so woman's voices are fully heard. 

Over 50s party, in government by your kind votes from next general
(some time between now and 2024),
would positively discriminate to factor in women's needs, which is not the case now.

JOBS FOR WOMEN DESIGNERS AND COMPUTER SOFTWARE WRITERS 
  • redesign all modern technology,
  • re-write computer software and so the artificial intelligence (AI) in our daily tech lives,
  • Take into account women's needs in our villages, towns and cities. 

Women are ignored.

Giving women more computer and industrial design education and jobs into the long future. 

And more women's jobs in urban planning.


GENDER PAY GAP REPORTING BY BOSSES

Keep gender pay gap reporting so keeping women's equal pay rights,
for firms over 50 staff. 

Keep executive and worker pay ratios reporting for firms over 50 staff.  

Background 
Tories may raise threshold of what is a small business about exemption from new regulations, so same for firms with fewer than 50 staff, for those with up to 500 staff, and raising the threshold still further to companies with fewer than 1,000 staff in the future. 



Women's Needs
Will be Heeded 

Whether it is urban planning,
house design,
in medical research, etc, 
women's requirements will have to be considered fully,
when our Over 50s party is in government

Book published 2019 - Invisible Women - Caroline Criado-Perez


BOOK PROVES WOMEN'S DISCRIMINATION
EMBEDDED IN TODAY'S WORLD AS WELL AS INTO THE FUTURE

Invisible Women ..."Invisible Women shows us how, in a world largely built for and by men, we are systematically ignoring half the population. It exposes ... a gap in our knowledge that is at the root of perpetual, systemic discrimination against women, and that has created a pervasive but invisible bias with a profound effect on women’s lives."...

..."In Invisible Women (2019), Caroline Criado-Perez argues ... the bulk of the world’s data is based on male bodies and male behaviours. The result is a world that (mostly) only caters to men (and) often actively disadvantages women. 
Perez shows how the data underpinning everything from medicine and AI (artificial intelligence), to the size of our smartphones, fails to account for women’s needs."...


Just a few of the examples in the book,
of how women ignored still in modern world
and so into the future


MEDICINE 
Invisible Women - insidious..."examples are ...the health risks to women ... the life-and-death consequences ... in medical research of ... different symptoms of heart attacks in men and women."...

CAR SAFETY
Invisible Women - car ..."safety equipment does not take into account that women are, on average, shorter and lighter (than men) contributes to the shocking statistic that when a woman is involved in a car crash, she is 47 percent more likely to be seriously injured than a man and 17 percent more likely to die! And all because we have failed to factor in gender differences when designing the safety equipment in cars."...
..."women in police forces and armies around the world are forced to wear male body armour that doesn't account for breasts and hips and therefore leaves them vulnerable to attack and more prone to workplace injury (a female police officer in Spain was disciplined for acquiring her own
made-for-women bulletproof vest)"...

MEDICAL RESEARCH
..."dysmenorrhea (extremely painful periods) was found to be completely alleviated without side effects in the early stages of Viagra testing, but its manufacturer stopped that direction of testing when it found the drug's more profitable application"...


HISTORY HAS ALWAYS IGNORED WOMEN

Invisible Women ..."In such a framing, women are set up to be forgettable. Ignorable. Dispensable – from culture,
from history, from data. And so, women become invisible."...

Health Issues Suffered more by Girls and Women
Ignored by Medicine and Medical Research
This would end under an Over 50s (saves all ages) party in government

by your kind votes, in next general election

Example of medical research not done for women and girls from Guardian article at end of above list:


..."ADHD in women is hugely under-researched – females weren’t even adequately included in findings until the late 90s. And it wasn’t until 2002 that we got our own long-term study.

As a child I was repeatedly told to 'stop daydreaming', 'slow down', 'hurry up' and 'act like a lady'


ADHD presents differently in girls and boys too. 


Women are more likely to have inattentive ADHD, rather than the more observable impulsive type.


Because of society’s gender norms, girls with ADHD are often dismissed as “daydreamers” and “overly sensitive”, as if we are a romantic, quirky caricature from a John Green novel or the Disney Princess canon."...


..."ADHD adults take an extra 16 days of absence a year, according to a report by the Australian ADHD Professionals Association"...


Suffer burn-out stress.


Kinds of Discriminations still suffered by Women and Girls
that Over 50s party would guarantee to solve
when in new government
by your kind votes,
at next general election (2023 or 2024)

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