Caroline Criado-Perez says ‘Brexit will be bad for women’
'Women are the ones who tend to bear the brunt of an economic slowdown'
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Your support makes all the difference.Caroline Criado-Perez has said that Brexit is “really bad news for women”.
Speaking to Press Association, the feminist activist said it is “backwards looking” to leave the European Union and will hinder women financially more than men.
“Brexit will be bad for women. It will impact women disproportionately,” said Criado-Perez.
“Women are the ones who tend to bear the brunt of an economic slowdown."
The campaigner explained she fears that women’s rights will be rolled back in the aftermath of Brexit, citing issues such as the gender pay gap.
Criado-Perez went on to criticise the way male Brexiteers communicate.
“If you look at the language that is used by Boris Johnson and the various pro-Brexit men, it’s very military, spirit of Dunkirk. It’s very militaristic,” she said.
“Even in the catchphrase they use, to ‘take back control’, it’s about trying to get back to a way that we were. The way that we were historically was not good for women.”
Criado-Perez is best-known for leading a campaign to erect a statue of suffragist role model Millicent Fawcett in Parliament Square.
A change.org petition for the statue attracted more then 85,000 signatures, with high-profile supporters including Caitlin Moran, Emma Watson and JK Rowling.
The bronze statue was unveiled in April 2018, marking a major step for women’s rights campaigners.
In March, Criado-Perez won praise for her book Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men, in which she addressed the shocking gender biases in modern technology and medicine.
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