Brexit for Women

Dear Reader,




Did you know how leaving or remaining in the EU was going to affect the tampon tax? Or equal pay? Or maternity rights? Or your guaranteed safety against sexual harassment in the workplace? Did any of things influence the way you voted last week? Because they should have even though these important issues were barely touched on in the lead up to the vote. Women’s issues once again slid to the bottom of the pile where the economy and immigration towered over them like Alice after she’d eaten the cake. No one in government since last Thursday has had their cake and eaten it too. They are all now like Alice, squished uncomfortably into a space they cannot get out of.

Throughout the campaigns there weren’t enough facts or nuance, and due to this women were unable to make informed decisions based on real projections of the implications of either vote. Because there were none. There was no five year plan. No bigger picture.No plan at all.

Maybe if the campaigns had discussed women’s rights in more depth and detail, then the outcome would’ve been different. It’s insulting that we, as a gender, have been underestimated and deemed not important enough to focus either of the campaign promises/lies on.

There were around a million more of us eligible to vote. A million more of us the campaigns could’ve targeted. A million who could’ve stopped the farce this country has become and the shambles it is now in.

A million of us who need to be taken more seriously.

Start listening.

Yours, Me x







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