Adequate and quality childcare determines women’s participation in the labour force and the type of work they can take on.
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If you feel threatened or confused by the #MeToo movement, try channelling your masculinist mystique.
With many men ‘missing’ from the population in the aftermath of the 1918 flu, women stepped into public roles that hadn’t previously been open to them.
In Hobart supporting the Tasmanian Greens ahead of the state election, Greens leader Richard Di Natale said ‘in one of our states, women are not getting access to safe terminations’. Is that correct?
Renewed attention is being given to the issue of child marriage in Lebanon as increasing numbers of young refugee girls are being married off as a response to the conflict and forced displacement.
A number of women who once wore and defended the full Islamic veil known as the niqab later chose to renounce it. Here two of them tell their stories.
Women’s rights and poverty cannot be ignored.
Large companies have a big role to play in ensuring women’s rights are protected in industries such as horticulture.
Ireland was quick to elect a woman member of parliament, but it’s been slow going thereafter.
A top class female footballer and tragic young soldier who was shot for ‘desertion’ despite fighting in some of WW1’s bloodiest battle fields are two hidden stories of The Great War.
Not everyone won the vote in 1918, and not everyone is living their best life now.
Saudi Arabia is the most recent country to grant women the vote. Pakistan has some serious work to do. And Vatican City really needs to get with the programme.
Sylvia Pankhurst’s book is the dominant narrative of the time, but was she unfair to her sister Christabel?
BBC’s Call the Midwife is a celebration of working class women’s labour. In its frank, but sweet, discussion of childbirth, it has much in common with fairy tales.
This vote should be about the morality of letting women suffer.
There have been great strides towards the protection of women’s rights in Africa but progress has been slow. A new body to actively implement rights protections and monitor progress must be set up.
Time is up. Canadian women demand their rights. In 2018, human rights are women’s rights.
The Northern Irish party were horrified at the suggestion that Brexit might mean different customs rules. But when it comes to women’s rights, it’s a different story.
A new campaign seeks to support all women affected by sexism, whether famous or not.
A huge majority of Americans support equal rights for women. Is now the right time to get an amendment passed?
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