Mumsnet’s founder Justine Roberts: “It is a place where women can speak the truth”
The parenting forum has become a powerful political force, and has been repeatedly accused of transphobia. Its CEO explains why…
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Anti-abortion campaigners don’t see women as people
When governments take rights away from us, we’re controlled and dehumanised.
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Are women more emotional than men?
Kenny Shiels seemed upset his “emotional” football team lost a match. He should try a good, hard cry.
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Why has it taken tragedy to stop the NHS pushing for “natural” births?
During my three days in labour I asked for a c-section countless times. I felt forgotten about, in danger and…
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How a new wave of literature is reclaiming spinsterhood
The unmarried woman has long been derided in popular culture and beyond. Now single women are telling their side of…
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“Darwin’s cultural bias was laced into his science”: Lucy Cooke on why evolutionary biology needs feminism
In her new book Bitch, the zoologist re-evaluates the myth of female submission in the animal kingdom.
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In Sexual Revolution, Laurie Penny wages war against bad sex
This broad, ambitious book skilfully skewers everyday sexism, but Penny's feminist uprising underestimates those they wish to save.
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Why we should still celebrate International Women’s Day, despite what’s happening in Ukraine
This year, of all years, we need to rally, rejoice, replenish, rabble-rouse and resist.
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