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SUMMARY:Christabel Pankhurst Lecture 2026: PUSHing for Justice: Women\, P
 ower and the Unfinished Fight for Equality
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DESCRIPTION:Join us for the Annual Christabel Pankhurst Lecture as our gu
 est speaker\, trailblazing legal leader and equality advocate Dr I. Step
 hanie Boyce CBE FKC. reflects on what it truly means to lead as a woman 
 within systems that too often reward conformity and resist change.\n\nIn
  “PUSHing for Justice: Women\, Power and the Unfinished Fight for Equali
 ty\,” Stephanie will draw on her lived experience – from growing up in a
  low-income\, first-generation British household on a council estate to 
 reaching national leadership – to examine how power operates within the 
 legal profession. She will explore why progress for women remains uneven
  and how structural inequality persists even where representation has im
 proved.\n\nUsing P.U.S.H. (Persevere Until Something Happens) as both a 
 personal philosophy and a call to collective action\, the lecture will e
 xamine the barriers women face in progression\, pay\, credibility\, safe
 ty\, and influence. Particular attention will be paid to the compounded 
 impact of race\, class\, disability\, and caring responsibilities\, and 
 why equality cannot be measured solely by access to the profession\, but
  by women’s ability to shape decisions\, culture\, and the distribution 
 of opportunity within it.\n\nThis lecture will challenge legal leaders\,
  institutions\, and allies to move beyond symbolism towards sustained st
 ructural reform – strengthening accountability\, widening access to just
 ice\, and defending the rule of law – so that the next generation of wom
 en in law inherit not just open doors\, but a profession redesigned for 
 fairness\, dignity\, and lasting equality.\n\nThe lecture will be delive
 red as a hybrid event. Those attending online will be sent a separate on
 line link closer to the event date. Online attendees will be able to sub
 mit questions via the Q&A function\, which will be read to the speaker b
 y a member of staff during the Q&A session.\n\nThe lecture will run for 
 approximately 45 minutes\, followed by a Q&A session\, and will conclude
  with an hour networking reception for in-person attendees starting at 5
 :20pm.
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CLASS:PUBLIC
LOCATION:Theatre B\, Roscoe Building\, Manchester
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