Samira Ibrahim is talking tough, but her face looks fraught. The decision by a military court on Sunday to exonerate a former military doctor from conducting “virginity tests” on female protestors in March last year is a setback and a big blow to her personally. For Ibrahim was the first to speak out about being [...]
One in 10 of Britain’s biggest companies still do not have any women on their boards – despite a high profile campaign launched a year ago by former banker Lord Davies to end all-male boards. But the figure will be heralded on Tuesday as a dramatic improvement on the situation when he first called on [...]
@jobellerina: Whilst delivering a strategic planning event, a male attendee comes in, walks past the young male intern, and hands me his coat This is a story of a tweet. Not the one above, but the one it was responding to. I did not set out, last Thursday morning, to become a trending topic on [...]
What does a drunk woman look like? Is she young or old, thin or fat? Is her dress too short, her high-heels impossible to walk in? What do you think when you see her: that she’s just out having a laugh, or making an embarrassing spectacle of herself? Or, worst of all, that she’s putting [...]
You’ve heard of Burger King. Prepare for Burger Queen. Now in its second year, the beauty pageant with a difference is the brainchild of 27-year-old performance artist Scottee, a “second-generation fattie” who wants to challenge the stereotype of fat people as “broken and unhappy”. Burger Queen takes place throughout March at the Royal Vauxhall Tavern [...]
It is spring, but my days are getting shorter, because I often sleep through chunks of them. Up I get, walk the dogs, feed them, have brekkers, read the papers, turn the computer on, glare at it, try to work, but it’s no good. It’s nearly lunchtime, and I need a little kip. This is [...]
Jane Martinson’s incisive interview of Lynne Featherstone (I have the powers of high-level nagging, 10 March) shows that the equalities minister has little grasp of the facts about what women need and have every right to expect from a modern government led by a prime minister who claims to be “repositioning” himself on issues of [...]
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The parenting website Mumsnet has launched a campaign to support sex attack victims after one in 10 women responding to its poll said they had been raped. The survey of 1,600 women found that a tenth of those who responded said they had been raped and a third sexually assaulted. But more than four in [...]
