The power of pink
The 'pinkification' of little girls – their clothes, their bedrooms, their toys – is a very recent phenomenon. So why did the launch this month of a campaign against the colour's dominance cause …
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Good news for women
The government's violence against women strategy is welcome – now it must co-ordinate this approach, including internationally You may not know it 25 November…
Gender pay gap still as high as 50%, UK survey says
• Women worst off in West Somerset with 53% gap • Strong public support for law to expose unfair wages Women are paid less than half as much as men in some parts of t…
Men dominate the boardroom because most women opt out of the race
At lunch, the female chief executive of a multinational said: "I make sure I have dinner with my daughter every night." So it is possible! Women can have it all! She broke into my reverie. "Then I …
Gender Tests result of Racism
An angry South Africa rallied yesterday to the defence of Caster Semenya, the world 800 metres champion, and dismissed calls for gender tests as the product of stereotyping and racism. …
We need a targeted attack on rape
My attacker was found not guilty, as I knew he would be. Is rape so trivial that we cannot fund specialist centres to stop it? So the police have been found to be "deliberately and determ…
The question: Is religion good for women?
Sometimes the liberator, sometimes the oppressor The history of women and faith is a chequered The effects of religion on women vary as widely as the societies in which it is pr…
