The Equality Illusion, By Kat Banyard - Reviews, Books - The Independent.
Kat Banyard wants to challenge the complacent notion that parity between the sexes has been achieved. Her research shows that the proverbial glass ceiling remains very much intact: on average, women in the UK are paid 23 per cent less per hour than men. She is particularly incisive on underlying sexist attitudes that perpetuate this inequality, which manifest in such pernicious developments as the normalisation of pornography. Society, she says, shows a "yogic ability to bend over backwards to ... accept and
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