Indian journalists fight to free jailed reporter who exposed attack on women
It might be thought that a journalist responsible for exposing a vicious assault on women would be lionised. In fact, he has been in jail for more than two months.In July last year, television reporter...
View ArticleLetters: Help Afghan women
President Obama is right to be "unequivocal" about the importance of protecting women's rights in Afghanistan as part of the US's peace, reconciliation and development efforts in the country (Report,...
View ArticleTime to Remember: The Suffragettes – British Pathé video
This clip from the 1950s documentary series Time to Remember shows a suffragette parade in the early 20th century
View ArticleGender discrimination steals a woman’s future | Sadhbh Walshe
New York is leading the way on legislation to ensure women aren't treated as second-class workersTo modernize Jane Austen's famous line: it is a truth universally acknowledged that a woman in...
View Article‘I’m as surprised as anyone’: the mother who took on Murdoch over Page 3
Karen Mason, the Twitter user who asked the media mogul to bin topless pictures in the Sun, and received a sympathetic response, talks about her unexpected achievementClare Short never managed it and...
View ArticleLatin America still a bastion of draconian anti-abortion laws | Annie Kelly
The region has the world's highest rate of unsafe abortions, and pro-choice activists are not only up against the law, but also have to convince health professionalsIn 2007, a battle was won in the...
View ArticlePop-up book club: The Feminine Mystique – day one
Join four of our Guardian US writers for our first chat about the opening chapters of Betty Friedan's 1963 feminist classicThe Guardian's pop-up book club discussion of The Feminine Mystique starts...
View ArticleBetween Seth MacFarlane and the Onion, Oscars night was a festival of...
Comedy doesn't always have to have a message, but it does if it's offensive about groups who are still in the minority – otherwise it's just bullying If, as one multiple Oscar winner once put it,...
View ArticleSheryl Sandberg is more of a feminist crusader than people give her credit...
Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg's new book Lean In has plenty for feminists and all women to applaud – and learn from Before I read her book or heard her speak, I was prepared to hate Facebook COO Sheryl...
View ArticleOccupying Iraq: a US army veteran’s ambivalence | Kayla Williams
I didn't support the war, but it was my job to serve. And despite the huge costs, I can never accept my comrades died 'in vain' A decade ago, I took part of the initial invasion of Iraq. It is long...
View ArticleRestorative justice in domestic violence cases is justice denied | Jill...
An offender making reparation to a victim may be fine and noble. But to blur the line over punishment for partner abuse is reckless Restorative justice is often a very good way to deal with crime, and...
View ArticleWe don’t want our burqas back: women in Afghanistan on the Taliban’s return
When the troops withdraw from Afghanistan next year, many fear a terrible backlash. Tracy McVeigh meets seven women who rebuilt their lives after Taliban oppression – and finds them at risk once more...
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