Two decades after Anita Hill, the promise of #MeToo is that women can stop paying a “creep tax“
Parallels between Hill’s case and that of Christine Blasey Ford, who has accused Brett Kavanaugh of sexual harrrassment, are striking.
By Helen Lewis
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Dawn Butler kicks off conference with one good policy and one pointless one
Oppositions love announcing the creation of new departments, but the value of this one is unclear.
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Piers Morgan’s campaign for men is straight out of the MRA and incel playbooks
When these beliefs about feminism, men and women are normalised in mainstream entertainment, it legitimises toxic beliefs.
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The obsession with “Boris’s blonde” has gone beyond public interest into misogyny
Again, double standards are applied to ambitious, blonde women and ambitious, blonde men.
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Abortion access is widening in England. Yet in Northern Ireland, women still risk prison
In Northern Ireland, ending a pregnancy is subject to archaic laws that carry the harshest criminal penalties in Europe.
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Podcast: Who is the real John McDonnell?
The New Statesman podcast with Helen Lewis and Stephen Bush.
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Women doing make-up on trains is nothing on these male public transport habits
Some things men should stop doing on the commute.
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I’ve endured 20 years of street harassment. Making misogyny a hate crime could help end it
Stella Creasy’s amendment could send a message that we don’t have to put up with it anymore.
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