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England’s Women’s football team succeeded where the men had failed for fifty-six years. They took home a major international trophy at the Euros 2022 tournament. There has been widespread praise for the Lionesses, but it has also opened up a conversation about the inequality and double standards for male and female footballers. The pay gap […]

Yet another young woman has been murdered. Ashling Murphy was a 22-year-old school teacher and strangled to death last week on the banks of the Grand Canal, Tullamore, County Offaly. The phrase “she was just…” has been a notable slogan used in response to the murders of women. “She was just walking home,” echoed after […]

The Color Purple feels strange to write in American English. It would feel somehow wrong and a disservice to such a touching, thoughtful, and pure novel to add that “u” into the title, though. So, I won’t. Alice Walker’s writing is uniquely American, in the same way that Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird carries that […]

Black women have been shaping Britain for years, but have often been overlooked and ignored due to racism and sexism. Here are five black women who have made history and tried to change Britain for the better. Diane Abbott (1953-) A true trailblazer of British politics. Abbott was the first black female MP, elected in […]

After the murder of Sarah Everard, the police are attempting to step up how they deal with sexual violence and domestic abuse. The domestic abuse commissioner for England and Wales has written to Home Secretary Priti Patel, calling for changes to the government’s flagship Policing Bill to help protect victims of domestic abuse. The proposed legislation […]

Last week, there was a tragic shooting in Plymouth which saw five lives taken, including a three-year-old girl. The police classed it as a domestic incident, rather than a terror incident. I found this decision confusing. This attack had all the characteristics of past terror attacks. The perpetrator had identified himself as a member of […]

The Handmaid’s Tale is currently airing its fourth series on Channel 4. The Emmy award-winning show first aired in 2017 and has hooked audiences since. Based on the classic book by Margaret Atwood, the show looks at a dystopian, theocratic America, now called Gilead, where fertile women are forced to become ‘handmaids’ – to carry […]

When Sarah Everard, a marketing executive living in London, a Durham University graduate; a girlfriend, friend, daughter; a human being, was abducted, raped, and murdered by a complete stranger when she was walking home one evening, the nation was shook. For days, social media was ablaze with rightly furious women posting about what had happened […]

The World Health Organisation’s (WHO) recent ‘Alcohol Action Plan’ seeks to raise awareness of alcohol-related harm, but it has presented itself as disgustingly misogynistic in the process. WHO’s recent draft stated that drinking should be avoided entirely by “women of childbearing age”, among other groups such as pregnant women and adolescents. The premise alone suggested […]

This past week has seen an outpouring of grief for so many victims of sexual harassment and assault. The kidnapping and murder of Sarah Everard, a woman who was just trying to walk home, and who did everything that she could to keep herself safe, has incited such anguish in response to her treatment. Her […]

Former Conservative MP Amber Rudd has recently stated in an interview with ITV’s Acting Prime Minister Podcast that she would “fire all men” if she was Prime Minister, and instead put in place an all-female Cabinet. This recent comment is part of a plethora of comments Rudd has made regarding the blatant inequality of the […]

You may have heard of a ‘snowflake’, and thought, what does it mean? Naturally, your innate curiosity as a liberal, open-minded individual, makes you investigate this new insult people have been throwing around lately like salted peanuts at a 16th birthday party. Define: Snowflake According to the urban dictionary, a snowflake is someone that ‘thinks […]

The BBC has published a list of its 96 highest earners, only a third of which are female. There has been, surprisingly, a great deal of surprise about the content of the list, which revealed the top seven highest earners were all male, and only two of the top 14 earners were female. It’s almost […]

Philip Davies, the Tory MP who claimed that “feminist zealots really do want women to have their cake and eat it” while speaking at a Justice for Men and Boys (J4MB) conference back in August, has been elected onto a parliamentary committee which scrutinises issues linked to women’s rights and equality. The MP for Shipley has […]

Tapes have emerged of Donald Trump making misogynistic comments and speaking crudely about his sexual encounters and relationship with his wife Melania. He stated 35 is ‘checkout time’ for women, and engaged in conversation about his daughter’s ‘voluptuous’ breasts. He also managed to combine both sexism and racism in one simple statement, saying “It depends […]

Women across Poland are predicted to go on strike against a new law making all abortions illegal and punishable by up to a five-year jail sentence. The law would also see doctors who carried out abortions at risk of prosecution. The current legislation is already hugely restrictive and allows abortion only in cases where the […]

On Saturday, a few of my friends and I went for a meal in Newcastle to celebrate my friend’s birthday. We met just before six in the evening so we could all walk down to the restaurant (on the Quayside) together. During this ten minute walk we encountered four separate incidents of shouting (one man […]

Everyday Sexism was the debut novel of Laura Bates, founder of the Everyday Sexism Project and journalist. Described as the ‘more politicised sister’ of Caitlin Moran’s notorious How To Be A Woman, it is one of the most successful pieces of feminist literature since the turn of the century. The project that was also the […]

The Conservative MP for Shipley, Philip Davis, has given a 45-minute speech at an international conference on men’s issues arranged by the anti-feminist political party Justice For Men and Boys (J4MB). In the speech, he said “feminist zealots really do want women to have their cake and eat it,” and that Britain’s justice system was […]

There is quite a long list of problems I have with the women’s magazine Cosmopolitan. The patronising tone; the culture of misogyny it perpetuates. But one thing in particular came to my attention a while ago when I accidentally came across the magazine’s Snapchat feature. I couldn’t initially put my finger on what was bothering […]

Today (May 28th) is Menstrual Hygiene Day, and to raise awareness of the difficulty of maintaining menstrual hygiene (or as we all know it, staying clean when you’re on your period) for women without regular access to water, charity Water Aid has released a series of satirical adverts designed to amuse, but also to make […]