In most contemporary societies there are no longer any formal barriers to women's participation in politics and public life, but women continue to be under-repr...
In 1970, the British Women’s Liberation Movement held its first conference at Ruskin College in Oxford. Among its four key demands were free twenty-four-hour nu...
For some time now, women in the UK—particularly women in Parliament and public life—have been subject to physical and verbal abuse, threats, and merciless assau...
It was fun while it lasted, neighbours meeting at a safe distance whilst clapping for carers. This was during Britain's first Covid-19 lockdown in March 20...
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) is among many bodies to move away from a conventional understanding of sex in the face of lobbying. Sex is a fundament...
Bad data make bad science. Gender biased data distort research because it is predicated on the assumption that the human is male. Caroline Criado Perez describ...
#Labourlosingwomen, #libdemslosingwomen, #WomenWontWheesht, #SNPleftme. If you are a frequent user of political Twitter, you will have seen one or more of thes...
Can it just be coincidence that the countries weathering the COVID-19 storm most effectively are run by female leaders? In recent weeks, endless column inches ...
We are most certainly living in difficult democratic times, with populism on the up. Any lingering complacency over the health of liberal, representative democ...
Catherine Rottenberg’s The Rise of Neoliberal Feminism engages intensively and critically with a group of high profile, heavily marketed North Americ...
Most democratic governments claim to support equality for women, but none have so far achieved it. Even after decades of struggle and despite significant ...
You’ve just published a book, Honourable Ladies, profiling every woman MP between 1918–1996. It features female contributors such as Mary Beard, Caroline Lucas...
