This year marks 100 years since the Suffragettes succeeded in pressuring the British government to grant some women the right to vote with the passing of the 1918 Representation of the People Act. But in 2018, gender inequality remains one of the great political questions of our time: institutionalised sexual violence and the gender pay gap dominate headlines, while men remain overrepresented in government, business and the media.
So how can we speed up progress and level the playing field? Do more men need to embrace failure? Do we need to force men to fail, and miss out on top jobs and top pay, in order to ensure women rise to the top of all industries and lead institutional, structural change? Or is framing gender equality in terms of male failure misleading – as a more equal society benefits all?
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