Female empowerment? Sex and the City is just empty sex and consumption
For Carrie and her friends, having sex “like men” means behaving like selfish arseholes.
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The crisis in Covid vaccine messaging is leaving pregnant women unprotected from Omicron
Vaccines don’t increase the risk of miscarriage, preterm birth or stillbirth – they reduce them, by protecting women from Covid-19.
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New police guidelines are easy. Real change to protect women is hard
Why is there an emphasis on orders, vetting and frameworks while calls to recognise misogyny as a hate crime go…
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Emily Ratajkowski interview: “I used to think feminism was women hustling”
The model and author of My Body on beauty, misogyny and how her understanding of feminism has evolved.
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Can you afford childcare on an MP’s salary?
If £82,000 a year isn’t enough to cover the cost of childcare in the UK, we have a problem.
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Why we need to get loud about gender inequality in climate politics
Climate summits are dominated by men, yet women bear the brunt of the climate crisis.
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Yogita Limaye’s Diary: The mercurial Taliban, selling children to survive, and the betrayal of Afghan women
In Kabul, a Taliban spokesman tells me girls were staying home from school of their own accord.
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The mystery of nightclub needles should not distract from rising cases of drink spiking
As women start to boycott night clubs across UK cities, experts are divided over claims of spiking by injection. But…
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Injection spiking is likely very rare – so why are we so scared?
The image of the malevolent syringe is all the more frightening because the usual female rituals are no defence.
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The death of a baby born in a prison cell exposes England’s warped justice system
A pregnant inmate of HMP Bronzefield was “failed”, a report finds. For women in prisons, it is a grimly familiar…
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We asked the following writers, activists and politicians the same question: if feminists could campaign for one thing, what should…
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