Welcome to Female Friendship Week on the New Statesman website. Throughout the week, we’ll be celebrating and examining relationships between people who identify as women: on screen, throughout history, and in our own lives.
Like so many expectations of social behaviour, our ideas of friendship are deeply gendered. Friendships between women are seen more emotional, empathetic, intense (and, often, fraught) than their male counterparts.
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