The coalition has finally wised up to the fact it's done nothing but annoy the fairer sex since the last election. It must be time for a patronizing strategy!It emerged yesterday that the government is planning to win back female voters by implementing policies such as changing the way child benefit is distributed and developing a strategy to encourage more women...
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14 Sep 2011 08:57 GMT
Are gender studies courses discriminatory? One man thinks so - and he's taking the legal action to prove it.The Evening Standard reported on Monday that a man is taking legal action against the London School of Economics, claiming that its gender studies courses are discriminatory against men.
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07 Sep 2011 12:30 GMT
To whomever receives this message...Please send help! I write you from my bunker in Brooklyn, 35 feet below the ground, 10 feet square, 718 cubic feet of canned beans and the smell of fear. Wild animals, cunning stowaways, scrounge for scraps of dried organic peaches in the corner. Their red devil eyes pierce the oppressive darkness of the subterranean survival chambe...
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02 Sep 2011 12:00 GMT
Last week, one journalist spoke out against sexist comments aimed at women war correspondents. It's nothing new, but isn't it time it ended?In the words of war correspondent May Craig, World War Two "gave women a chance to show what they could do in the news world". It was the conflict where Margaret Bourk...
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31 Aug 2011 12:00 GMT
Every day as I commute I grit my teeth over ads that reinforce harmful gender stereotypes in the name of being healthy.The first time I saw a Wellwoman ‘Health and Vitality’ drink ad on the Tube, I got some seriously funny looks. What can I say? Feminist rage is hard to conceal, and I wouldn’t really want to. My ire only increased when I s...
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24 Aug 2011 15:00 GMT
Remember the other week when we mentioned that a all of the proceeds from the Amy Winehouse for Fred Perry collection would be donated to the Amy Winehouse Foundation? Well, there's been a little problem.
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22 Aug 2011 17:00 GMT
PETA - there are very few things this organization does that I like, and now they've managed to confuse me even more. When I first read that PETA were launching a pornographic website, I thought it was a natural next step. (I mean, please. You've seen their ads, right?) I imagined cucumers being used in all sorts of new and interesting ways, butternut squashes finally owning up to the fact...
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22 Aug 2011 11:00 GMT
What do Beast, Never Say Never and The Office all have in common? They've all made me cry on recent flights to and from America. Yes, I cried because Justin Bieber almost lost his voice before his big performance at Madison Square Garden. I'm not proud, but dammit I couldn't help it.
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18 Aug 2011 17:00 GMT
If feminism has been in "resurgence" mode for nigh on a decade, why is it still treated as some new fad?Last weekend, around 500 people travelled to Birmingham for the second Summer School run by UK Feminista, the organisation which brings together people interested in gender equality and equips them for action. I couldn't make it this time - although I attended last year and had a fantastic weekend. This year's ...
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17 Aug 2011 09:00 GMT
Welcome to social media's most tedious new trend: bickering over the "right" response to the news.When faced with recent tragedies and shocking current events, the social media-based reaction du jour seems to be one which tells others what sort of status updates and tweets they should be making about said events. Yes, "reacting to the reactions" is "in" - and while it can be thoughtful and productive (see this week's discussions of the social problems behind the London...
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10 Aug 2011 13:00 GMT