Life of the Mind - Gender Equality

The Life of the Mind series is an overarching prompt for engagement and reflection, a theme to connect all of our programs around the world, and this Fall term we will be introducing our new theme: Gender Equality. 

Dr. Richard Maguire further describes our theme and what you can do to get involved!

Did you know?

• Two thirds of the world’s illiterate are women!
•  Globally, women are paid less than men. Women in most countries earn on average only 60 to 75 per cent of men’s wages.
• Women, especially those in poverty, appear more vulnerable in the face of natural disasters. A recent study of 141 countries found that more women than men die from natural hazards.

What is being done?

The United Nations are committed to working towards 17 Global Goals to make the word a fairer, safer and healthier place for all. One of these challenges is Gender Equality, which hopes to achieve:

1. End all forms of discrimination against all women and girls everywhere.
2. End all forms of violence against women and girls, including sex trafficking and other forms of exploitation.
3. End all practices and traditions that may impair the physical, mental and sexual health of women and girls.
4. Recognize and value women’s work at home. Encourage women and girls to have equal opportunities to be heard and to have real opportunities to participate in all political, economic and public spheres.
5. Protect women’s rights to sexual and reproductive health.
6. Promote policies and laws to ensure gender equality including reforms to give women equal access to ownership and control over land and other forms of property, financial services, inheritance, and natural resources.

learn More

As part of our support for this campaign we will welcome Laura Bates, the founder of the Everyday Sexism Project, to talk to us on October 21^st as part of our Talk of the Town series. We will be posting in the Arcadia London Facebook group with further details.

Get Involved!

Here at the Arcadia Centre in London we have started taking selfies in support of this aim. Please join us in this campaign and add your picture holding the red poster to our board in reception. There are some posters there for you to use. Email your pictures to London@arcadia.edu.

Please join our campaign!