Speech On Gender Equality Analysis

Sooo I am here today to make a speech about gender equality or perhaps I should say gender INequality.

Okay first of all let me just begin by saying that I was so scared and reluctant about choosing this topic, not only because i am generally shy and absolutely terriefied of public speaking, but also because I was I would not do this incredibly debated, important, vital topic justice.

So, just to break the ice what about I tell you a story instead, a story from my childhood

When I was in primary school, my teacher said at the beginning of term that she would give the class a test and whoever got the highest score would be the class monitor. Now, class monitor was a big deal. If you were a class monitor, you got to write down the names of noise makers, which was having enough power of

When I started realizing there was this huge problem,I started trying to talk about it, expecially at school and again and again, I got the same response. People said, "Stop making a fuss. Women are equal now, more or less."

If women are equal now, then to talk about sexism, to complain about sexism, must be overreacting. Or maybe you don 't have a sense of humor, or maybe you need to learn to take a compliment, or maybe you 're a bit frigid or uptight and you need to learn to take a joke.

I thought, maybe they were right, maybe women are equal now, more or less; perhaps I was overreacting. I thought I 'd look into it, I 'd interrogate that claim and I did.

These are some of the things that I found:

Women are equal now, more or less.

Except in our Italian Parliament, where the policies that affect all of us are debated and defined, less than one in four politician is a woman.

I decided to look at the arts. I found that it was reported in 2010, that out of hundred of thousands of works, one of the most prestigious art institutions in the world, the National Gallery of London, that had paintings by just 5