Gender equality

The fight for wages for housework

In the Seventies, one feminist movement campaigned to make domestic labour both visible and recompensed.

David Goodhart’s care delusion

The UK faces a falling fertility rate and a crisis in social care. Must women bear the blame?

Labour’s employment bill is a vital opportunity for women’s rights

Now in government, the party must ensure its proposed legislation delivers on better protections for working women and incentivises the…

“Pro-family” rhetoric and its fascist resonances

Traditional gender roles have propped up authoritarian regimes of the past. In Republicans’ views on women, the echoes are clear.

Kemi Badenoch and the legal definition of sex

The presumptive front-runner for the next Conservative leadership contest has been unfairly vilified.

Judith Butler and the fear of gender

In the 1990s a new philosophy helped open up alternative ways of being. Nobody predicted it would lead to war.

The women classical music forgot

Leah Broad’s Quartet restores the pioneering work and colourful lives of Britain’s finest female composers.

Who are the 31 male MPs on Westminster’s list of shame?

Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.

Is meaningful action finally being taken against Pestminster?

A House of Commons Commission has proposed to exclude MPs accused of sexual and violent crimes from parliament.

Why are women still paying for HRT?

The government has made hormone replacement therapy cheaper, but any cost exacerbates the gender health gap.

Where’s the hormone-free contraception for women?

Scientists are developing a male pill with no side effects, but it would be an outrage if this luxury wasn’t…

The Policy Ask with Laura Foster: “Why aren’t we doing everything we can to empower women to thrive?”

The policy lead at TechUK on reforming childcare, quantum technologies and being inspired by Chi Onwurah.

A gender-neutral God is far from revolutionary

It’s reductive to describe the creator of the entire universe as a mere man.

Why we need the Women’s Prize for Non-fiction

We might be tempted to see prizes for women as less necessary with each passing year – but non-fiction is…

In Sarah Polley’s Women Talking, sexual assault survivors refuse silence

In this Mennonite #MeToo drama, the victims of male violence must choose between faith and their desire for justice.

Why liberals keep being fooled in the gender debate

Had supposedly progressive politicians listened to women’s concerns over trans prisoners they would not have been so badly exposed.

Scottish Labour’s gender bill farce shows it’s not ready to lead

Anas Sarwar’s party risks coming across as a limp facsimile of the SNP.

19 October 1929: Our newspapers are full of sex wars, sex repressions, sex this and sex that.

Magdalena Andersson and Sanna Marin’s fight against far-right misogyny

The ease with which sexist attacks have undermined Sanna Marin and Magdalena Andersson should concern us all.

Pragya Agarwal: “Gender stereotypes are so deeply embedded in society”

The scientist and writer on being “over-emotional”, sexism in the workplace, and why women’s pain is less likely to be…