Shadow Attorney General for England and Wales and Director of Liberty from September 2003 to March 2016, Baroness Shami Chakrabarti, is to address issues of gender injustice at a public lecture at the University of Leicester.
The event, ‘Fighting Gender Injustice in a Changing World’, is being hosted by the University of Leicester’s Unit for Diversity, Inclusion and Community Engagement (DICE) based in the School of Media, Communication and Sociology.It takes place on Thursday 10 May from 6pm-8.20pm at the Peter Williams Lecture Theatre, University Road, Leicester.
Assistant Professor John Williams from DICE said: “It is a great honour to be hosting ShamiChakrabarti, a woman who is an inspiration to our students and to women and many men around the country and across the world. Her work on civil liberties will be very well known to most people but, in the era of ‘Me too’ and extreme gender pay differentials, this connected avenue of concern is a timely reminder of what still needs to be done in order to achieve gender justice.”
Professor Surinder Sharma from DICE said: “DICE exists at the University of Leicester precisely to bring internationally-known speakers, such as Baroness Chakrabarti, to the Leicester public: BAME women who have truly made their mark in the world and who continue to strive for meaningful social change. This presentation and subject is important for everyone in our society, because men from our multi-cultural communities will also benefit, of course, from greater gender justice.”
Gender injustice continues to blight first and developing worlds, affecting all of us, rich and poor alike. Baroness Chakrabarti follows in the footsteps of great feminist thinkers such as Mary Wollstonecraft, the Pankhursts, de Beauvoir and Germaine Greer, all of whom have argued that radical action is needed for greater gender justice.
She will lay out the huge challenges we face in creating a more gender equal world for women from all backgrounds, a world in which women and men can do better at sharing power, responsibility and opportunity and where everyone has a chance to fulfil their full potential.Baroness Chakrabarti outlines what needs fixing and why we must put women's rights at the centre of any progressive global political agenda.
