No woman's life is really like this. Photograph: Getty Images
By Glosswitch - 24 May 8:00

What is this unspoken authority and how is it exercised?

Three woman reading.
By Girl on the Net - 17 May 11:46

The opinions in this article are NSFW. Or breakfast. Or anywhere - that's the problem. Women aren't supposed to be filthy.

Adult onesie. Photograph: Getty Images.
By Eleanor Margolis - 14 May 10:21

Adults, myself included, are regressing to childhood - moving back in with their parents, job-hunting in between porn-viewing sessions and eating bowls of Frosties for dinner. Who could blame us?

New Statesman
By Alice O'Keeffe - 02 May 9:08

Alice O'Keeffe's "Squeezed Middle" column.

The Duchess of Cambridge "flaunting" her bump
By Glosswitch - 25 April 13:03

You don't just go about your life when you're pregnant. You "debut" your bump, and then "flaunt" it.

A baby holds its mother's hand. Photo: Getty
By Glosswitch - 24 April 14:01

Tanya Gold writes that "motherhood and autonomy can never coexist" - but how does that affect the debate over abortion?

Photograph: Getty Images
By Glosswitch - 10 April 12:20

Glosswitch reads parenting manuals so you don't have to.

Oxfam charity shop warehouse
By Sarah Howell - 04 April 10:42

The humble charity shop will be hit by further financial burdens thanks to the government's new business rates scheme.

Snoop Lion/Dog. Photograph: Getty Images
By Eleanor Margolis - 02 April 10:12

While it’s great to have Hillary and Snoop on board the equal marriage bandwagon, Eleanor can’t help feeling they care a little bit too much about vote-chasing and record sales to be celebrated as true converts to the cause just yet.

New Statesman
By Alice O'Keeffe - 27 March 18:15

I was never that good at maths, but it just can't be right.

New Statesman
By Alice O'Keeffe - 21 March 10:20

Entering “babyccino” denial.

Young women hiking on the Chiltern Hills
By Aisha Gani - 14 March 19:51

Young women from BME backgrounds are discovering that there's more to hiking than the white middle class stereotype.

The other type of Cougar. Photograph: Getty Images
By Willard Foxton - 12 March 10:48

In which Willard dates an older woman.

We are spectacularly unprepared for the entirely inevitable. Photograph: Getty
By Gina Allum - 07 March 8:23

Ghosts in the machine.

You can't use lessons from your own life to judge other parents.
By Glosswitch - 04 March 13:11

The Conservative MP’s concerns only represent one experience of parenting – her own.

"So, farmer dating. Yes, we're definitely back in the twilight zone."
By Willard Foxton - 02 March 11:33

In which Willard gets his first proper kiss since the project began.

Queuing for the dole in 1976. Photograph: Getty Images
By Nicholas Lezard - 28 February 14:18

Nicholas Lezard's "Down and Out" column.

Actress Lynn Redgrave with Richard Briers in 1970
By Neil Clark - 28 February 9:17

We weren't just watching it on television in the 1970s - we were living it, too.

We need a more level playing field to encourage greater gender diversity
By Wendy Hall - 27 February 9:30

Without them, Britain will fall behind.

Mummy blogging reframes the mundane. Photograph: Getty Images
By Glosswitch - 22 February 11:32

Writing about raising children and domestic life is no more trivial than any other blogging subject, argues Glosswitch.

New Statesman
By Alice O'Keeffe - 21 February 12:58

How can house prices be so high when seemingly nobody has any money?

New Statesman
By Marie Le Conte - 19 February 10:28

Contrary to what you've been told, the world doesn't end when a woman stops shaving.

An iguana hanging out in Puerto Rico.
By Willard Foxton - 18 February 10:00

In which Willard encounters a fiscally prudent herpetologist.

Photograph: Getty Images
By Nicholas Lezard - 14 February 7:45

Nicholas Lezards "Down and Out" column.

A man walks past a flower market decorated with hearts.
By Rhiannon and Holly - 12 February 10:10

Amid the terrifying tat and horrible heartbreak, genuinely heartfelt gestures do still have a chance.

A woman breastfeeds her newborn baby.
By Glosswitch - 11 February 10:07

Blind adherence to the principle of “breast is best” seems to have become more important than treating babies, toddlers and parents as whole human beings.

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