“I think every young girl and woman has experienced everyday sexism in their life,” Sherry-Rose tells me during a Monday night conversation.
“It’s the cumulative nature and the small insidious acts that make you more aware and hyper-conscious of the fact that being a woman almost singles you out in society,” the Plan International Youth Ambassador continues.
Our Watch and Plan International have today published a report — which Sherry-Rose participated in — that reveals just how rampant gender inequality and sexism continues to be in Australian society. Its release coincides with the International Day of the Girl.
Speaking to Sherry-Rose about the findings, I tell her I’m struck by how little seems to have changed.
Investigating everyday experiences, relationships, online and physical safety, sexual education and reproductive rights, it’s an illuminating but shocking read.