Summary

  • More than 150 #100Women debates going on around world asking if women are under pressure to conform

  • Women in London have been discussing whether you need to be beautiful to succeed in the workplace

  • Email stories and comments to BBC100.Women@bbc.co.uk on Tuesday 1 December 2015

Live Reporting

Pippa Stephens, Elaine Okyere, Harry Low, Josephine McDermott, Sarah Buckley, Neil Arun, Lesley Sixsmith and Jasmine Coleman

  1. 'Women should not be sexualised for being assertive'

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  2. A good time - despite it all

    From the Mexico debate:

    Despite everything I think it's a very good time to be a woman in Mexico

    @azapatah

  3. Our crew in Tanzania

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  4. Gender inequality in four teenage girls

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  5. You're welcome, Shaimaa!

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  6. Domestic violence and women's progress discussed

    Argentina

    At the La Casa del Encuentro debate in Buenos Aires they discussed sex and relationships and the link between violence and women's progress.

    "In violent relations, when a woman starts progressing, violence increases," said one participant.

    La Casa del Encuentro debateLa Casa del Encuentro

  7. 'Eliminate pressures to comply sexually'

    From the Harvard University debate:

    We would eliminate the pressures for women, and everyone else for that matter, to comply with another person's sexual desires. Too often, these are due to force or coercion

  8. 'Like asking permission to speak'

    From the Mexico City debate

    Most of the time as women, sometimes you need to apologise just for trying to say something with men colleagues, is almost like we are asking permission all the time before we even speak

    @catalinapordios

  9. Welcome to Mexico!

    Mexico City

    Hello everyone, the #100women debate in Mexico City is going to start in about five minutes!

    Alan Hernández

    Women in Mexico City

  10. Panel discussion 'skewed'

    Too much talk about having a family and children. If you are lucky enough to have children you cannot imagine the impact not having children has on your relationship. Pity that some members of the panel were given far more airtime than others.

    Melanie Sullivan

  11. Success and assertiveness

    A comment from the debate at Harvard University:

    If success in a relationship is defined by mutual respect, comfort, and support, then women who don't conform to expectations of being subservient will most likely have more success because they are actively exercising their right to make their own decisions

  12. Girl guides: 'You can't marry someone you haven't had sex with'

    Argentina

    "You can't marry a person who you haven't had sex with - you are committing for life to someone you don't fully know'."

  13. Coming up: Mexico, US, UK, Argentina and New Zealand

    Mexico, the US and the UK are debating in this hour including @Migreat and @IntlWomen.

    We'll bring you updates from live events until 22:00 with Argentina, the US, the UK and New Zealand joining in.  

  14. Trendsmap shows where you've been tweeting about #100Women

    Here’s a Trendsmap video for 12 hours showing where in the world people have been tweeting about #100women.

    Trendsmap graphic

  15. 'Why should sex before marriage be put on women?'

    "I struggle with this thing being pushed on women alone. I have a son and girls and I give them both the same message," said  Reverend Rose Hudson-Wilkin, at the BBC 100 Women debate in London.

    "I think we get to the bedroom far too quickly and we need to spend more time in the dining room and the lounge talking to each other."

    BBC 100 women debate

    We need to spend more time in the dining room."

  16. More discussions with men, please

    Italy

    The topics of beauty, appearance, conforming and self esteem are, among all the others you are dealing with, very appealing because they do refer to psychological conditions that we all experience in our daily life, being a woman or a man. If anything, I would like to see discussions where men are more directly involved.

    Oliviero Godi, Professor, University of Milan

  17. Sex is about 'valuing yourself'

    "I don't think it is about the sex - and whether you have sex before marriage," said author Jenny Garrett.

    Jenny Garrett

     "There is something about respecting yourself and whether you are a man or a women just valuing yourself."

  18. Fantasy dinner party

  19. 'It's love, not compulsion'

    Uzma Alkarim tweets from Pakistan:

  20. Taking issue with the phrase 'having it all'

    "Isn't the whole expression 'having it all' ludicrous," said relationship columnist Tash Bell, at the BBC 100 Women in London.   

    "It's all an evil conspiracy to make women feel like a dog turd"

    Tash Bell

    Nobody has it all!"