Adults

Women own only 1% of the world’s property.

Give 10p for each woman in your family who owns property, either jointly or by themselves.

Children

Today is International Women’s Day, when we celebrate all the good things that women bring to our world. But in today’s world, women are more likely than men to be poor and unable to read. We don’t think that’s fair. What do you think?

I think women are..... because.....

In 1986 I bought a house, a four year-old, two bedroomed, mid-terraced 'town house' at a price £18999, and I earned £720 cash-back for swift completion.  Two years later, at a time when interest rates soared to the point where I had to use all my limited savings to keep out of debt, I moved to a new town, about 80 miles away, and to a 1960's three bedroomed semi-detached house, with a sale price of £31,500 no offers and with prices rising by around £1000 a week.  In 1999 I sold that house for £41, 000 having, in the intervening years, spent more than the ten thousand difference in upgrading and maintaining it.  The notional profit was what I lived on the next four years, supplemented by gifts from friends, small grants for the BUGB and preaching fees.  There is no way I will ever again own property, but I am confident that I will never be homeless.  So whilst I am part of the 99% of women who do not own property, I have been privileged enough to be part of the 1%.

Using the same definition of 'family' as before - there are five women in my family of an age where property ownership would be feasible.  Only one owns property, so the cost today is 10p.

My pledge

Today - 10p

Total - £23.85, four prayers, one rant and one e-petition signed