Caroline

“Egypt, the country that boasts the first evidence of FGM some four thousand years ago, today offers the highest incidence of the practice. Egypt is a country of around 90 million people and, according to UNICEF figures in 2013, has the highest number of women who have been mutilated of any country in the world, nearly 30 million, or 91 per cent of the female population.8 This figure is nearer 100 per cent in the villages of the Upper Nile, where the river cuts a deep, wide passage through the desert plateau.”
― Sue Lloyd Roberts, The War on Women

“thumb. In 1895 a city of London byelaw was passed entitled Curfew on Wife Beating, which made hitting your wife between the hours of 10pm and 7am illegal in order to stop the noise keeping neighbours awake.”
― Tania O'Donnell, A History of Courtship: 800 Years of Seduction Techniques

“the bad years, as most of Alsace did. We have paid it back but”
― Kiran Millwood Hargrave, The Dance Tree

“The research shows one of the biggest pay gaps is between male and female health professionals. It’s been calculated at 27 per cent, which works out as the difference between £18.50 an hour and £25.33.1 The TUC says a key reason for the size of the pay gap in health is the earnings of the best-paid professionals. Top male professionals in health earn nearly £50 an hour, almost twice as much as top-earning women who earn £24.90 an hour. The TUC has found women working in manufacturing occupations experience the next biggest pay gap at 22 per cent less than men. Women working as managers, directors and senior officials experience the next biggest pay gap at 21 per cent, which works out at men getting £26.80 an hour whilst women get just £21.”
― Sue Lloyd Roberts, The War on Women