“Feminism is not a club that you join – that you pay into. It’s an actual ethical and qualitative attitude and value towards the world,” she tells me on the phone, while discussing her up-coming TEDxGlasgow talk on Global Feminism.

“Global Feminism is the way forward to transform the lives of girls and women everywhere,” she says. And the need to highlight women’s issues has never felt greater. The World Health Organisation estimates 35% of women worldwide have experienced either physical and/or sexual intimate partner violence or non-partner sexual violence in their lifetime. And UN Women reports up to 15 million adolescent girls worldwide have experienced forced sex at some point in their life.

“I’m 64,” Lennox says. “I’ve been through quite a lot of different stages, through different periods of time. Since I was born in the Fifties, living through the Sixties, going on to be a young woman in the Seventies, Eighties, Nineties…I’ve watched everything develop and evolve sometimes for the better, sometimes for the worse over those periods of time. And I think right now, it’s an interesting moment in terms of that glass ceiling.”

The singer-songwriter explains she believes the disparity in the rights of women living in Western countries, when compared to other countries, is “massive.”

“There are still issues that are so, so fundamental. Issues that have already been overcome by women in Western countries are still challenges faced by women in the developing world.

“In many countries, it’s as if the clock has spun backwards a hundred years.”

Annie Lennox is fighting for Global Feminism – is it time we changed our viewpoint?