Posted by Alumni from WEF
March 28, 2024
Jude Kelly, chief executive officer and founder of the Women of the World (WOW) Festival, addresses the threat of online misogyny and 'incels' - to men as well as women, on the Forum's Radio Davos podcast, as she talks about her experience starting WOW, men's role in feminism, and progress and regression around attitudes to women across the world. Jude Kelly: I did the festival for its very first year to celebrate the 100th anniversary of International Women's Day, and it was such a hit' Straight away people said, "Oh, I'd love to do this in Baltimore, I'd love to do this Australia'" The girls and women who come - and the boys and men, because many men attend - they might think they're coming to hear one thing that interests them but they're going to bump into something else. And whether that's something as plaintive and difficult as looking at the violence that's enacted on women... or whether it's something completely joyful, like hearing from the first Indian woman surfing... learn more