My niece was born about this time last year, and a few months later I saw the article in The Guardian about how it would take another 70 years to close the gender pay gap. This prompted me to look into other gender issues and I realised that I didn't want my niece to grow up in this world where women are still treated as second class citizens. I got angry, mostly at myself. Angry that I had just accepted gender inequality and not done anything to try and change it. I don't want my niece to grow up the same. I started to hear talk of WE and I knew that I had to join, that I had to get involved. So I did