there is nowhere in the world where
women and men have total equality it
doesn't exist
anywhere going to give you money it's
going to go say
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equality the London 2016 mayoral
election will see a historical moment as
Britain's first feminist party hits the
poles with the goal of making London the
world's first ever gender equal City the
big issue now is just making sure
everybody knows that we exist and that
we're a possibility we are on everybody
else's radar our Manifesto policies are
being pinched at a rate that gladdens my
heart you call your party the women's
equality party yeah we thought we'd like
be really clear about what we wanted
that was it really but don't do you
think that men might feel excluded like
why wouldn't you call it the gender
equality party oh it's so scary see uh
secretly I think the conservative party
and the labor party and all this have
been the men's conservative party they
just didn't feel they needed to mention
it especially men when you talk about
the word feminism it's almost like it's
become an f word don't change it I'm a
feminist I've always been a feminist I
think it's a fantastic thing to be if
that scares you don't call yourself that
but still fight the fight don't get
fixated on a word that stops you getting
the job done if we dealt with all the
issues like child care and fully
employing all the women of London it be
worth 70 billion to the city a
year women in the UK us and Europe were
given the right to vote almost 100 years
ago but despite being 51% of the
population women are still heavily
underrepresented in the halls of power
and according to the world economic
Forum women will have to wait another
118 years to get paid the same as
okay birday
equality let's
go the women's equality party are
hitting the streets now they're going to
start door knocking so let's see if
London is ready for gender
equality
hi
you uh yes
hello right all right thank you
so he's like oh women's equality party
I'll get my wife hello I'm the mayor
of this is very selective information oh
why do you think it's selective London
issues are a lot more than what you just
mentioned true but what we want to do is
to get this into the pot as well so
we're not saying instead of we're saying
as well as what do you hope the women's
equality party could achieve we have so
few women in Parliament and I think a
lot of those women are embarrassed to
bring things up cuz they're seen is
women's issues but they are everyone's
issues we're the only party that helpes
one day to not need to
exist that would be nice wouldn't it and
then we can
all take up
weaving I thought that I'd just live my
life with a payas I didn't think that it
was ever really going to change and then
women's quity party came along it
doesn't feel like old politics it feels
new oh May
no good morning we're campaing for the
women equality party I see it's a bit of
contradiction that yes you campaign on a
female only ticket there are quite a lot
of women repr the other parties can I
give you my le it's only going to go the
recycling so uh on the side somebody
else it's going to go the recycling
afraid so uh go on take for us are you
not afraid that you're excluding men the
people who are the most discriminated
against in our country are women uh
2third of Britain's poorest people are
women the scale of violence against
women is enormous people say well
haven't women got enough equality I
don't really know what enough equality
looks like uh but my answer is always no
we haven't got enough 9 million women
failed to vote at the general election a
lot of women don't see their lives their
needs their experiences
represented it's about time that these
issues were addressed they're going to
raise awareness of the issues and maybe
the other parties will take more notice
have you made lots of friends EX
your goal is to make London the first
gender equal city in the world yes what
are you up against well we're up against
a 23% pay Gap child care that is a third
more expensive than anywhere else in the
UK we have an Equal Pay Act and a sex
Discrimination Act which are both about
40 45 years old and neither of them work
properly it's time to decide that women
are not a special interest group you
know we want to see other parties take
our manifestos and steal our ideas when
that happens we celebrate and then we
raise the bar
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