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Have you ever wondered what a woman would do all day dressed as a massive pound coin?Click Read more
Friends, We're really excited to tell you about the next step ... Read more
A playwright, translator and spy, Behn (also known as Astrea) has a good claim to being the first Englishwoman to make a living outof her writing. In the centuries after her death in 1689, her plays were dismissed as indecent ... Read more
Emma Watson has said she was “raging” after a hoax website threatened to release nude photos of her online. The ... Read more
After meeting women in London, Brighton and Leeds, and collecting hundreds of personal stories from all around the country in a new online archive, Broken Leg Theatre ... Read more
By Mark Tran Self-avowed "passionate feminist" Kirstie Allsopp ... Read more
By Germaine Greer The most curmudgeonly old feminist has got to be glad that in February 2012 two young women set up a blog raging about the insidious ... Read more
By Deborah Orr I don't know much about Nigeria. ... Read more
By Sumati Mehrishi For British-born artist Bharti Kher, the ubiquitous bindi of Indian women is more than just a dot. It is a celebration of feminism, of pride in gender. Her work with the bindi, her understanding of its symbolism and the colourful ornamentation’s absence from her person are only just a few facets of feminism that the artist ... Read more
By Owen Jones When Margaret Thatcher's government took on the miners 30 years ago, she confronted an enemy that was organised: they had collective strength and a ... Read more
By Glosswitch Our children's education is reinforcing the idea that it is natural for women and girls to be decorative, whereas men and boys are the active ones. Do we want them ... Read more
By Felicity Morse Using Page 3 girls to promote breast cancer awareness is a clever move by The Sun. It highlights a very worthy cause. It’s ... Read more
International Women’s Day, like any event that promotes positive discrimination, is accompanied by its fair share of negative remarks. The earliest Women’... Read more
By Laurie Penny Dear Rebecca Adlington, You don't know me, but I've been a fan of yours for a while. I'm as impressed ... Read more
By Roy Greenslade A second women's football team have accepted sponsorship ... Read more
Rebekah Cameron is a 46-year-old trans woman working in one of the most male-dominated environments known to woman – construction. Since transitioning, she has found it necessary to price her work lower than before. “There’s this attitude that men know better. ... Read more
Females across the country are queuing up (and sometimes lying down) to oppose legislation which will limit the availability of abortions. Alasdair Fotheringham in Madrid asks what these so-called registry protests can achieve. As havens of humdrum ... Read more
Every generation brings a new definition of masculinity and femininity that manifests itself in children’s dress... Little Franklin Delano Roosevelt sits primly on a stool, his white skirt spread smoothly over ... Read more
It has taken Hannah Betts over a year to revert to her normal body shape after a bout of illness left her skinny, vulnerable and 'unsexed’. Now she asks why her healthy attitude to ... Read more
By Vivian Giang What makes today's young professionals different than other generations'? In order to make it in today's highly competitive, technology-obsessed and accelerated world, we need ... Read more
