Women in power: the unfinished revolution for female MPs
Even after two female prime ministers, the model of politics we offer ourselves remains resolutely male.
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The US author visited the UK for the first time in December 2018 to promote the paperback copy of her…
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Why we should fear populists like Orbán and Erdogan who want women to be baby machines
“Hungarian people think differently. We do not need numbers. We need Hungarian children.”
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Beware Meghan Markle’s bananas of empowerment
“You are special,” says the banana, “but nowhere near as special as the woman who wrote on me.”
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Women’s work: how Britain discarded its female computer programmers
Britain once led the world in electronic computing. But when the industry squeezed out female employees, it wrote its own…
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The best of the New Statesman 2018: Society
From our decaying public realm to rising homelessness.
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Dani Dyer, Love Island, and the harmful perpetuation of the “cute but crazy” trope
“I’m just a normal nutty girl who can be a bit crazy and irrational”.
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I loved The Handmaid’s Tale. But Margaret Atwood’s promise of a sequel makes me nervous
Atwood is the author, but with anti-Trump protesters donning red gowns, who actually owns The Handmaid’s Tale?
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