AN EVENT to raise awareness about gender inequality and domestic abuse as part of International Women’s Day took place in the city centre with the message that “it is not just women’s issues.”
Soroptimist Liz Batten said: “This is not just women’s issues. It’s all part of a women’s safety campaign which we have been doing in Salisbury now for a couple of years. So, it links in very nicely with raising awareness of domestic abuse wherever it happens whether in the home or at a refuge.
“Some women have to continue suffering in silence at home. FearLess (charity) works well with them.