Lies, damn lies, and...

Yesterday, I was researching something for work, and came across this data on the Equal Opportunities Commission website. Some lovely, life affirming statistics, such as the fact that only 20% of MPs are women, and at the current rate, it will take 195 years to achieve equality. Even more comforting is that while there is currently a 5% conviction rate for reported rapes, this statistic shows no improvement at all, and is likely to never improve, if things stay as they are.

Here's some more:
An estimated 1 million women in England and Wales experienced abuse from a current or former partner in the last year.
Women aged 16 or over are 5 times as likely as men to feel very unsafe walking alone in their area after dark.
On average, women spend 180 minutes per day on housework, that's 78% more time than men who spend only 101 minutes per day. This is getting worse, not better.
Retired women's income is 40% lower than retired men's.
In full-time work, female employees earn 17% less per hour on average than male employees.
Female employees in part-time work earn 38% less than the hourly rate of men in full-time work.

And they say we don't need feminism any more. I suspect "they" are mostly men.

Cheating again

Still working on the writing like mad. Assignment due Friday...not good. However, today I went to the botanic gardens in Cambridge, so enjoy these pictures.

Real entries will resume soon.

I am working on the writing course again. Somehow I have an assignment due a week on Friday. I have no idea what I'm going to write about.

Blehh.

Also, I'm back at work after a week and a half off. Which just sucks.

Photos

In lieu of a real post, some pics from the folk festival.


The main tent by day:

And by night:

Rachel Unthank and the Winterset play the main stage: