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My #FGM TORTURE🩸
Agnes Pareyio Recalls Hers:
"I was 14 when my mom and grandma announced that I was going to have my clitoris, my labia majora and my labia minora cut out. They said that if I resisted I was a coward. In my culture, the worst thing you can be called is a coward.
On the day I was mutilated, I was woken up at three in the morning and taken outside, naked, because the villagers believed that if I felt the morning breeze on my body it would cool me and I would bleed less. I saw that the object they would cut me with was not sharp. I was not
offered any anaesthesia, but I was told not to cry – your father is in the house, they said, and he should never hear you cry.
I was determined to show I was not a coward, so I tried very hard not to show any emotion. As a result, I was cut deeper and I could not stop bleeding. I
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Hi @PhysicsNews @EHRC @EHRCChair @KishwerFalkner @RJHilsenrath @trussliz @GEOgovuk

The Diversity Monitoring section of your job application asks for the 'gender' of the applicant with options:

Female
Male
Non-Binary
Other

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#WomenInScience #WomenScienceDay #WomenInSTEM
'Gender' is not a protected characteristic under the Equality Act 2010 and is not defined in the Act.

legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2010/15/…

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Sex is the protected characteristic and the only two possible options for sex are 'Female' and 'Male' as defined in the Act and consistent with biology, but you don't ask for that.

legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2010/15/…

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Mileva Maric was the only woman in the physics program w Einstein. She failed her exams a few weeks after discovering she was pregnant and then dropped out. They both were working on 2 papers each. A few years later he published 4 papers that became known as a miracle. No
physicist has had as strong a year in history. Their marriage suffered but she would not grant a divorce- until he promised Mileva the entire Nobel Prize if he were to win it. In 1922, he won for his work of the 1905 “miracle year.” In their love letters, Einstein refers to her
having the “better topic” and “our work” on relative motion. John Statchel, the Einstein expert who almost single handedly erased academic open mindedness to believing in a co-authorship history took down the theory by insisting Einstein gave Maric too much credit bc he was in
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1/ Today, we celebrated the #InternationalDayOfWomenAndGirlsInScience at Archbishop Taylor Memorial school, in partnership with @OandoFoundation. ImageImageImage
2/ #WomenWithWings volunteered their time to mentor the girls from primary 4-6 and discuss the importance, challenges and opportunities of choosing a career within STEM. #WomenScienceDay #WomenInSTEM #HumansOfOando ImageImage
3/ We are always glad to impart knowledge on the next generation of Africans whenever the opportunity arises. #WomenScienceDay #WomenInSTEM #HumansOfOando
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1/ Happy #InternationalDayOfWomenAndGirlsInScience! The theme for this year is “Investment in Women & Girls in Science for Inclusive Green Growth”. #OandoCares #OandoIsNigeria Image
2/ Our #WomenWithWings in collaboration with @OandoFoundation will be visiting Archbishop Taylor Memorial school, Victoria Island for a career mentorship talk with the girls in Primary 4-6 to discuss the opportunities that lie ahead of them. #HumansOfOando #WomenInSTEM
3/ We never pass on an opportunity to show our support and promote Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) as a career option for women. #OandoCares #OandoIsNigeria
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