The Daily Mail has removed a vicious article it published about Kate Maltby after the journalist wrote about an uncomfortable encounter with the Tory MP Damian Green, and has agreed to pay her £11,000.
I’m delighted for Kate. The Women’s Equality Party worked hard to support her and other women who experienced Westminster’s misogyny and demand with them that our democratic institutions lead the way in tackling and ending endemic sexism. But the Mail looked little changed on Friday: the so-called sidebar of shame still hems every page of its website, with its snapshots of women forensically assessed by their looks. Its top story involved a footballer’s wife wearing a bikini.
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