The Public Voice of Women (2014)

We were talking about this just the other day.

"Occasionally women could legitimately rise up to speak – to defend their homes, their children, their husbands or the interests of other women"

To this day, writers struggle to find internal motivation for their female characters. Usually an active women character will be fleeing from danger or recovering what's hers.

Meanwhile male character doesn't need to justify his ambition. He just want to conquer, and he's going to.

What a cool article, tracking the lineage of silencing women!

Its eye-openingly interesting to observe how often the men in meetings speak compared to the women. Sometimes its quite surprising, particularly in meetings that have a majority of women in them!

This is an incredible piece. Very well-written and fascinating.