Women - Where
Last year marked the 100th
anniversary
of
Suffragette
Emily Wilding Davidson’s fatal
death, where she was collieded
with the King’s Horse during
a protest at the annual Derby.
This was arguably one of the
biggest moments in the history
of Women’s rights and five years
later women gained the right to
vote. So 100 years on just how
far have we really come? The idea
of feminism in this day and age
bring stereotypes of burning
bras, unshaven armpits and menhating women, but is it really
that impossible to think that a
woman finely groomed and all
dressed in pink can’t want the
same rights as a man? Although
from a worldwide point of
view our rights in a first world
country seem like something
of a blessing compared to the
horrors that can be seen around
the globe. Our screens are filled
with arranged marriges, Female
Genital Mutilation (FGM) and the
horrific ways women are treated
in Eastern cultures. Yet we look
closer to home, although we do
not endu