SoGE community supports International Women's Day
The School of Geography and the Environment (SoGE) community has today (8 March) come together to mark International Women's Day.
Individuals from across the department have demonstrated their support for this year's #BreakTheBias campaign by striking the break the bias pose and commenting on why it is vital we tackle gender bias.
"Break the bias by inspiring and motivating girls and young women to dream big and realise their full potential."
- Faith Opio, MSc Course Coordinator.
"We should strive to break the bias and keep breaking glass ceilings so that the younger generation can grow up in an equal world, knowing that they can dream without boundaries and that gender is not a bar to attaining those dreams."
- Priyal Bunwaree, Lawyer, SoGE Alumna (2020).
"#BreakTheBias by co-developing equitable climate change solutions across gender, age, social vulnerability, location, and time."
- Jennifer Helgeson, Environmental Economist, National Institute of Standards and Technology, SoGE Alumna 2007.
"There is no one way to be a woman, just like there are many ways to tackle patriarchy. It's everyone's job to #BreakTheBias."
- PK Kulasegram, EDI Manager.
"Women are solutions to the climate crisis if we can harness their potentials as natural stewards of our planet. Inexpensive investments into solar cookers can save women's time in gathering firewood, improve their health and cut emissions, kickstarting positive feedback loops to empower women for climate action."
- Natalie Chung, Co-Founder of V'air Hong Kong, SoGE Alumna 2021.
"All of the really successful people I know have a strong action bias. They just do things. Let's see something happen now, gender parity is not just good for women it's good for society."
- Jen Wright, HR Manager.
"We want a free world, where everyone is equal. Together we can #BreakTheBias."
- Liliana Resende, Digital Communications and Marketing Officer, and Lucy Erickson, Head of Strategic Communications, SSEE.
"I will challenge assumptions that our transport needs are gender neutral."
- Hannah Budnitz, Research Associate in Urban Mobility, Transport Studies Unit.
"We should break the Bias because women can do as much as men. It is better if we work together."
- Miranda Peredo (high-school student currently in Bolivia. She was born in Oxford while alumni Bernardo Peredo was completing his DPhil. Year of graduation: MSc BCM 2004, DPHIL, 2011).
"March 8th is not only women's day. It is feminist fight day. A day for feminist political struggles; the struggle for trans, non-binary, asexual recognition, the struggle for fair valuation of domestic labour and many more."
- Rieke Buckup, MSc NSEG
You can check out all the photos and messages from members of our community on our Twitter profile.
Prof. Gillian Rose, Head of the School said:
"I'm very pleased that many members of the School have shown their support for this important campaign for International Women's Day. Here at SoGE, we are committed to striving for a world that is diverse, equitable, and inclusive, from what we teach to what and how we research. Participating in IWD is just one part of that wide range of work."
Last year, the School was awarded Athena Swan Silver in recognition of the department's commitment to advancing gender equality.
For more information on the department's work on Equality, Diversity and Inclusion please visit our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion webpage or contact Pk Kulasegram (they/them) (equality@ouce.ox.ac.uk) our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Manager.
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SoGE community supports International Women's Day
The School of Geography and the Environment (SoGE) community has today (8 March) come together to mark International Women's Day. Individuals from across the department have demonstrated their support for this year's #BreakTheBias campaign by striking the break the bias pose and commenting on why it is vital we tackle gender bias.
