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Their UK director, Kajal Odedra tells me that in her experience, women sign, share and support online petitions far more than men do. Women drive change that’s instigated and legitimized by online campaigns. As a result, women truly are winning online. Via the internet, women are changing the world. While the majority of online petitions are started by men, more winning petitions are started by and run by women. In many ways we hold the equivalent of political offices and the power to persuade political decision makers through the internet.

That is pretty astounding. It is new. It is exciting. We do not know where it will lead us yet. That is up to us.

Back on that depressingly

rainy afternoon, my phone

vibrated. I STILL had not started

revising . . . so, I looked at my phone and saw my

friend Verity had sent me a link to an article.

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