I BEND, A POEM READ BY GMB UNION EQUALITIES GROUP FOR INTERNATIONAL WOMENS DAY
We felt this poem illustrated exactly the mood of many women, with the feelings and emotions of the poem being felt by the hundreds of thousands of women who have shouldered much of the burden.
GMB union Equalities group read a poem, I Bend by Selena Odom , for International Women’s Day.
As we celebrate International Womens Day, the womens network looked at the role women have played throughout the pandemic. We identified that it is women who are more likely to have taken on those extra caring responsibilities. Many families prior to lockdown moved vulnerable family members into their homes to form bubbles, the majority of the extra work and caring for this will have fallen on women.