“It usually is always the mum that stays home and the dad goes out to work.”
"...you never see anything for young dads, you never hear anything for young dads."
Young women discuss what safe space means to them.
“I’m from a small town in an area, lots of pockets of wee villages with small town mentalities, the way people think about things are not very open. At school we didn’t learn about sexual identities or anything like that."
In discussions about public figures, numerous young women referenced First Minister of Scotland Nicola Sturgeon and the UK’s youngest politician Mhairi Black MP as inspirational figures in Scotland.
In discussions about mental health young women talked about their efforts to protect and strengthen wellbeing.
"I knew my limitations before I knew my strength or what I was actually capable of."
“I always still walk home alone like I’m kind of independent in that sense but I’m also holding my keys in my back pocket also I’ve got my partner on call stuff like that..."
Bias and hostility continues to be experienced by ethnically and culturally diverse young women.
Young women talked about what it’s like to identify as LGBT+ and to navigate those identities in Scotland.