S7: Changing history for women with activist, journalist and author Caroline Criado-Perez OBE
Conversations of Inspiration
Holly Tucker MBE
5.0 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 9 March 2020
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Best-selling author Caroline Criado-Perez OBE is a feminist activist and led the campaign for keeping a woman on British banknotes. Not only that, but she also spearheaded the movement to install the first female statue in Parliament Square. Caroline epitomises the difference we can make in the world when we see that something needs to change.
In this episode, Holly and Caroline explore how our generation can challenge, and hopefully move on from, the enforced societal “imposter syndrome” and identify the sometimes hidden, but very much rife, inequality within our society.
Caroline and Holly discuss the impact of her award-winning book, Invisible Woman, and how it has highlighted and driven forward, the much-needed conversation around gender and data. No easy feat!
Honest, fearless and a true activist at her core, Caroline Criado-Perez is a force to be reckoned with and this episode is guaranteed to motivate you to do more when it comes to demanding equality.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm here at Penguin Random House on the Strand, huddled under a doorway waiting to speak to the |
| 0:07.1 | incredible changemaker Caroline Credo Perez. |
| 0:11.3 | Not only was she the person behind keeping a woman on the British bank note. |
| 0:16.2 | Yes that's right ladies and gentlemen there was a moment where all bank notes were |
| 0:20.9 | going to only have men on them but she also campaigned successfully for the first |
| 0:25.6 | female statue in Parliament Square. She's an award-winning and best-selling writer of |
| 0:31.3 | invisible women, |
| 0:32.9 | named as Book of the Decade |
| 0:34.8 | and is a force to be reckoned with. |
| 0:36.9 | And I, for one, cannot wait to meet her. |
| 0:40.4 | And I have a funny feeling we might put the world to rights. |
| 0:44.0 | I'm Holly Tucker and welcome to conversations of inspiration. |
| 0:51.0 | I'm the founder of Not on the High Street and Holly and Co. and I'm the UK Ambassador of Creative Small Businesses. |
| 0:58.0 | I believe that having a business doing what you love is the key to a happy fulfilled life and my dream is to help everybody |
| 1:05.7 | start theirs. |
| 1:07.4 | So I've reached out to all my favorite small businesses, acclaimed entrepreneurs and those |
| 1:12.4 | who just simply inspire me and ask them to share theirs. |
| 1:16.5 | With thanks to our sponsor NatWest who have helped bring this free podcast to life. |
| 1:21.8 | Here are my conversations of inspiration. |
| 1:25.0 | Bow your head and let your eyelids close on down where we're going |
| 1:30.0 | you won't need to bring your frown. Hi Caroline, what an honor it is to be chatting with you today and I cannot |
| 1:38.1 | wait to share your story, your learnings on this podcast today so thank you |
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