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The tale of a famous Glasgow suffragette who fought for gender equality


1 Pacifist, feminist and suffragette, Springburn-born Agnes Dollan (nee Moir) went to jail for campaigning for fairer rents for Glasgow families during the First World War and helped secure the vote for British women. She was also the first female to stand for election with the city council.
2 Agnes Moir was one of the eleven children of Henry Moir, a blacksmith, and his wife, Annie Wilkinson. She left school at the age of 11, working briefly in a factory before becoming a telephone operator at the Post Office. It was here, spurred on by discrimination suffered by her colleagues, that she helped set up a trade union for female workers and campaigned for an organisation that was fighting to secure the vote for women. ....

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Covid-19 reveals flaws in development practice: tackling inequality requires transformation


Published on 18 February 2021
Ahead of World Social Justice Day (20 February), IDS researchers Melissa Leach, Hayley MacGregor, Ian Scoones and Annie Wilkinson review the lessons from Covid-19 for development practices in a new journal article and why political, economic and social transformations are needed to tackle injustices and inequalities, and prepare for the future.
The pandemic has highlighted the intense fragilities of systems that assure health and wellbeing, food supplies, sustainable livelihoods and resilient economies. Covid-19 has had far deeper impacts on those already experiencing poverty and inequality, with the effects of the health crisis felt unevenly across geographies, income bands, gender, ethnicity and age. The assertion that ‘we’re all in this together’ is truly a myth, as highlighted in a recent Oxfam report. ....

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