It's Not A Zero Sum Game

    Google "women in science" and you get a worrying picture. You know the kind I'm talking about - " Fewer women in top...

   In the wake of the terrible news about Charles Saatchi seemingly assaulting his wife in public last Saturday, one of the most persiste...

In a week when a British feminist took on & defeated Facebook, Louise Mensch writes disparagingly of the supposed flaccid ineffectivene...

   In the movie "The Devil Wears Prada", which is otherwise a pretty uninspiring non-exposé of the underbelly of the fashion maga...

I've been interested in the discourse about Femen that's been going on ever since the story of Amina Tyler hit the news. One of t...

The Daily Mail is doing what the Daily Mail does: taking a human tragedy & obscenely distorting it to score a cheap political point, in...

   1. Assume that people are competent, intelligent and are trying to do the right thing . And I don’t mean “pay lip service to that assu...

   So there was this very interesting series of tweets from Dusty this morning, which I briefly storified: [ View the story "  ...

Tom Chivers had this great piece in the Telegraph this week, where he repeated a suggestion from Caitlin Moran to men who think that workp...

  I felt this Lindy West piece on "sexism fatigue" so, so hard today. Especially the bit where she talks about how doggone exhau...

  I don't know why I've been thinking about this today - maybe it's the Israeli elections and the fact that I had an opportunit...

I've not really written on this topic before, because my views were not very strongly formed for one thing, but also because it's o...

   Some people are kind of gross, you know? It's not nice to say it, but they just are. You look at them and you imagine that they prob...

   I had a conversation recently with a representative from an organisation that helps women obtain access to contraception and abortion...