The law is male
Baroness Helena Kennedy QC |
TEDxGlasgow
• June 2019
Baroness Helena Kennedy QC is putting the law on trial. The charge? Failing to deliver justice for women.
She’s spent her career challenging a legal system that has neglected to understand the reality of women’s lives. To her, it was obvious that male-created law wasn’t working for women and that women were judged differently. But back in 1993 when Baroness Kennedy wrote her first book on the subject, her controversial views made waves.
27 years on and the world has changed, but has the law?
The conviction rate in rape cases is persistently low. Battered women are still being killed by abusive partners at a rate of two a week in Britain. Women in the workplace harassed yet punished if they complain. And around the world, the story is no different.
Silenced, disbelieved, and blamed, women are taking the law into their own hands. Join Baroness Helena Kennedy QC as she makes a passionate case for legal reform.