Clas Class

‘Knowing that things could be worse should not stop us from trying to make them better,’ Sheryl Sandberg has argued, while calling for women to fight for senior leadership positions in male-dominated industries. But does a focus on breaking glass ceilings and ‘leaning in’ come at a cost of passing over issues of class or downplaying the effects of economic inequality? Do advances at the top make it harder to see worsening inequality at the bottom?

In a country where the notion of a ‘classless society’ is part of popular myth, how can feminism address the specific challenges facing economically-disadvantaged women? Does mainstream feminism adequately respond to problems related to class, and how do the concerns of professional and working-class women differ?

In conversation with host Maxine Beneba Clarke, Anne Summers and Alice Pung will talk about feminism’s potency for lifters and leaners of a different kind.