Giving Compass' Take:

• Authors at Global Citizen share stories from UK activists that focus on their plight to address gender inequality and fight discrimination. 

• What are you doing in your local community to address issues around gender inequality? What solutions or models have you seen that are working? 

 • Learn more on how to make an impact with this gender equality guide. 

Now we know that gender inequality is an issue that affects every one of us, that is holding the whole world back, how do we move from conversation to action to put an end to it?

So we asked some of our favourite feminist activists across the UK for their top tips on how they fight for gender equality every day.

  1. Amika George — Activist tackling period poverty "Put away any preconceptions about what you think you can and can’t do! When you have a real hunger to make lasting change, you will push yourself in new directions with a new force and a new sense of purpose. You will surprise yourself! So don’t limit yourself, and think broader and more ambitiously than you’ve ever done before, and see how far you can go!"
  2. Taban Shoresh — Aid worker and women’s rights activist “As a survivor of genocide and an abusive marriage, my personal experiences in life led me to help women and girls impacted by conflict and displacement. I founded a platform, The Lotus Flower, to provide the tools and help build bridges in supporting women rebuild their lives. My way of fighting for gender equality is by ensuring that all our projects have gender equality at the heart of them.”
  3. Gemma Styles — Writer and activist “Fight inequality by taking it offline. There’s a real power in the mass feminism of Instagram, but it’s important to maintain those standards in conversation, without an audience. Don’t laugh along at that joke to be polite, make them do better. If you’re thinking ‘wow you shouldn’t have said that’, tell them!”

Read the full article about gender inequality by James Hitchings-Hales, Imogen Calderwood, and Helen Lock at Global Citizen.