So we all read her contraversial statement? We read it over someone’s shoulder and then had to get a copy to really see what the fuss was about once we got off the train. Whatsprings to mind is…How much does the Daily Mail hate women? It obviously hates female celebrities, despite featuring them so heavily. [...]
Every five years, for all of her adult life, Farida Faizi went through the same old routine. “I’d answer the door around election time,” she said, “and the Labour man would say: ‘Is your dad in?’ or: ‘Can I speak to your husband?’” Faizi is 41 years old, runs her own jewellery business and has [...]
The advertising watchdog has banned an ad campaign by American Apparel featuring semi-naked young women, after investigating a complaint that it is “pornographic and exploitative”. American Apparel ran a series of eight ads on its website, and one in Crack, a free lifestyle magazine available from shops, featuring women in various states of undress, some [...]
The advertising watchdog has banned an ad campaign by American Apparel featuring semi-naked young women, after investigating a complaint that it is “pornographic and exploitative”. American Apparel ran a series of eight ads on its website, and one in Crack, a free lifestyle magazine available from shops, featuring women in various states of undress, some [...]
The play In the Next Room, also known as the Vibrator Play, was a big hit a couple of years ago in New York, which surprised no one more than Sarah Ruhl, the playwright. Although Ruhl, then 34, was a recipient of the MacArthur “genius” grant and a Pulitzer prize finalist, she thought the subject [...]
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Morocco is under growing pressure to better protect women after a man who was allowed to marry a 16-year old girl he had allegedly raped was invited by a newspaper to join a discussion on improving women’s rights. The man did not attend the roundtable meeting about the case of the teenager, Amina Filali, who [...]
Women risk a loss of sensation, numbness and tingling in their undercarriage as a result of cycling in certain positions, the New York Times reports. In a study published in the Journal of Sexual Medicine, Yale academics asked 48 competitive cyclists to bring their bikes into their laboratory, then used a device to test sensation [...]
“Resilience is important, but of course the environment in which you operate is crucial,” says Sara Thornton, chief constable of Thames Valley police. “In terms of working practices, very often jobs have been created around the needs of men, rather than the needs of women.” Since joining the police in the mid-1980s – when she [...]
