Education for Women's Liberation, Closing Plenary: Helen Joyce (UCL, 4 February 2023)

Helen Joyce is Director of Advocacy at Sex Matters and author of TRANS: When Ideology Meets Reality, named as a book of the year in 2021 by the Observer, Spectator and Times. Helen was a staff journalist at The Economist from 2005 to 2022, holding several senior positions, including Britain Editor, Finance Editor and International Editor. She has a PhD in mathematics from UCL.

She spoke at Education for Women's Liberation, a day of feminist thought and women’s activism, organised by UCL Women’s Liberation SIG and WPUK. Building on the highly successful Women’s Liberation 2020 conference, the conference brought together feminist activists, students, academics, writers, politicians and women’s organisations.

Focusing on education in feminism and women’s lives, the conference addressed interconnected themes including: women’s voices in education; sexual harassment in schools and universities; the history of women’s access to education in local and global contexts; the ways in which women’s entrance into education and research has changed workplaces and academic disciplines; the impact of gendered stereotypes in educational spaces, and sex and relationship education in schools.

[janineskywalker]

If I lived over in the UK I would love to belong to this group.J.

[catherinerobilliard]

“Go forth and be boring”so simple, it’s genius

[laurabambam]

Helen is a wonderful advocate for women. She is so informed and calm with her arguments

[thelionpack]

We're still better than you tho🤣🤣🤣😘