Women Build Grassroots Alliances Across Britain as Green Jobs Risk Skewing 3-to-1 Male
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Updated · The Guardian · Aug 12
Women Build Grassroots Alliances Across Britain as Green Jobs Risk Skewing 3-to-1 Male
1 articles · Updated · The Guardian · Aug 12
Summary
Across Britain, women are rebuilding feminist alliances through local, in-person organizing focused on safety, jobs, poverty and support services rather than polarizing online battles.
Social media outrage—especially around transgender women’s place in feminism—has deepened divisions, while activists say the far right is exploiting women’s insecurity to push more divisive politics.
Projects such as Mothership’s kitchen-table conversations, Wigan’s women-led mutual-aid work and the North East’s One Million Women and Girls network are creating practical spaces for women to connect and press local politicians.
In the north-east, women are raising concrete concerns about public transport safety and access to green jobs, with forecasts suggesting future roles in sectors like wind energy could favor men by as much as 3 to 1.
From Belfast to London to Newcastle, organizers argue these quiet community alliances are now central to resisting misogyny, countering far-right radicalization and protecting women’s rights in a broader climate of inequality and conflict.