NS archive: Hungry people make poor shoppers
27 January 1988: The boom in women’s self-help books.
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What woman would be saved by the Home Office’s new Safer Streets-funded apps?
If only the solutions to violence against women were simple enough to be found in a GPS tracking app.
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Why has the right gone natalist?
There’s something disconcerting about the conservative penchant for telling women they need to breed.
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Who’s responsible for women’s safety on their commute home?
With ongoing Tube strikes and taxi shortages, someone must take responsibility for women’s safety.
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Female prisoners shouldn’t be used as a shield for trans women from male violence
The House of Lords must vote to keep prisons single-sex.
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Molly-Mae proves the absurdity of “girlboss” feminism
It’s easy to say you can achieve whatever you want – if you’re rich, white and conventionally beautiful.
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Why the right should champion trans rights
Conservatives stand for individual rights and freedoms – those of trans people should be no exception.
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What lies behind conspiracy theories targeting Brigitte Macron
The wife of the French president has faced false rumours that she is a transgender woman.
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Poland won’t stop at opposing abortion – now it wants to track pregnancies digitally
The country’s stridently pro-family rhetoric is doing little to encourage people to start families.
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Female empowerment? Sex and the City is just empty sex and consumption
For Carrie and her friends, having sex “like men” means behaving like selfish arseholes.
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The crisis in Covid vaccine messaging is leaving pregnant women unprotected from Omicron
Vaccines don’t increase the risk of miscarriage, preterm birth or stillbirth – they reduce them, by protecting women from Covid-19.
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New police guidelines are easy. Real change to protect women is hard
Why is there an emphasis on orders, vetting and frameworks while calls to recognise misogyny as a hate crime go…
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From the NS archive: The unmarried mother
6 March 1920: How the Bastardy Bill will better serve parents and children.
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From the NS archive: Girls! New feminism needs you!
16 January 1998: For all women’s successes, equality is not yet won, argues Natasha Walter. Plus, we throw open the…
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Emily Ratajkowski interview: “I used to think feminism was women hustling”
The model and author of My Body on beauty, misogyny and how her understanding of feminism has evolved.
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Can you afford childcare on an MP’s salary?
If £82,000 a year isn’t enough to cover the cost of childcare in the UK, we have a problem.
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Why we need to get loud about gender inequality in climate politics
Climate summits are dominated by men, yet women bear the brunt of the climate crisis.
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Yogita Limaye’s Diary: The mercurial Taliban, selling children to survive, and the betrayal of Afghan women
In Kabul, a Taliban spokesman tells me girls were staying home from school of their own accord.
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The mystery of nightclub needles should not distract from rising cases of drink spiking
As women start to boycott night clubs across UK cities, experts are divided over claims of spiking by injection. But…
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Injection spiking is likely very rare – so why are we so scared?
The image of the malevolent syringe is all the more frightening because the usual female rituals are no defence.
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