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Gender politics

  • Friday, 2 August, 2024
    Paris Olympics
    Olympics chiefs blame ‘misleading information’ for women’s boxing row

    IOC defends decision to include two competitors barred by international federation after opponent abandons fight

    Angela Carini, left, of Italy abandons her bout during a women’s 66kg tie against Algeria’s Imane Khelif in the North Paris Arena, August 1 2024
  • Friday, 2 August, 2024
    US presidential election 2024
    ‘I’ve been waiting for this my whole life’: Kamala Harris energises America’s women

    Democrat’s polling strength has also been underpinned by jump in support among the young and voters of colour

    Supporters take pictures with Democratic presidential candidate and vice-president Kamala Harris during a campaign event in Atlanta, Georgia on July 30 2024
  • Wednesday, 24 July, 2024
    Inside BusinessAmy Kazmin
    Italy is tying itself in knots over business gender quotas

    Unthinking patriarchy still dominates great swaths of public life in the country

    Giorgia Meloni
  • Wednesday, 17 July, 2024
    US Secret Service
    Secret Service target of misogynistic backlash after Trump shooting

    Rightwing commentators and politicians blame diversity and inclusion policies for alleged security failings

    Republican presidential candidate and former president Donald Trump gestures as he gets into a vehicle with the assistance of Secret Service personnel after he was shot in the right ear during a campaign rally at the Butler Farm Show in Butler, Pennsylvania on July 13 2024
  • Thursday, 4 July, 2024
    ReviewFilm
    Orlando: My Political Biography — entertaining manifesto film channels Virginia Woolf

    Twenty trans and non-binary people recount their experiences through the guise of the time-travelling protagonist

    A person in a blue T-shirt, skirt and cowboy boots stands in an orange room by a sign that says ‘Power to the People’
  • Friday, 21 June, 2024
    Is economics a losing game for women?

    Living on the wrong side of the tenure track

  • Thursday, 13 June, 2024
    Special ReportEurope’s Leading Patent Law Firms
    Studies highlight gender and race-based gaps in patent applications

    Disparities contribute to income inequalities and influence who receives funding for invention, researchers say

    An artistic image divided into two sections: on the left, a man in glasses is seated at a desk, typing on a computer. On the right, a woman with curly hair is depicted in profile, shedding a tear and holding her hand to her mouth
  • Sunday, 2 June, 2024
    UK general election 2024
    Tories pledge to amend Equality Act to define sex as ‘biological sex’

    Proposal is designed to create a dividing line with Labour over trans rights

    Trans rights protesters gather in Edinburgh
  • Tuesday, 21 May, 2024
    Nikki Shure
    The truth about the confidence pay penalty

    Telling women to ‘lean in’ is too simplistic

    Silhouette of a woman walking through the Broadgate corporate offices development in the City of London
  • Wednesday, 24 April, 2024
    Anna-Maria Volkmann
    The ‘gender health gap’ shortens lives and costs billions

    Neglecting women’s pain affects the entire medical pipeline, from research to diagnosis and treatment

    Pregnant women holding their prescription papers wait to be examined at a government-run hospital in the northeastern Indian city of Agartala
  • Tuesday, 2 April, 2024
    Scottish politics
    JK Rowling will not be prosecuted over online comments, Scottish police say

    ‘No further action’ to be taken after author of ‘Harry Potter’ series described several transgender women as men

    JK Rowling
  • Saturday, 23 March, 2024
    Emma Jacobs
    For all their problems, prizes still have a place

    It’s easy to scoff at awards, but they answer a human need for recognition

    Warren Beatty speaks as ‘La La Land’ producer Jordan Horowitz hugs ‘Moonlight’ director Barry Jenkins at the 2017 Oscars. The RBG prize is a reminder of the risks of such awards
  • Friday, 22 March, 2024
    UK politics
    UK police investigate alleged remarks by Tory donor Frank Hester

    Entrepreneur reportedly said looking at MP Diane Abbott made ‘you just want to hate all Black women’

    The Phoenix Partnership chief executive Frank Hester
  • Thursday, 21 March, 2024
    UK Inequality
    UK government faces multibillion pound bill over pension inequality

    Ombudsman finds changes to state pension age was mishandled, affecting millions of women

    Protesters outside the Houses of Parliament holding up banners objecting to state pension age change for women in October 2018
  • Sunday, 17 March, 2024
    Pilita Clark
    Has the push for female equality gone too far?

    The answer is clearly no but a large share of people think otherwise

    Illustration of a woman with steam coming out of her ears and looking very angry, saying ‘Wait. Whaaaat?!’
  • Friday, 15 March, 2024
    Academics boycott Wiley gender journal after ‘anti-woke’ shift

    Backlash highlights dilemmas of publishers trying to remain profitable in disrupted industry

    The cover of the Wiley journal Gender, work and organization
  • Thursday, 14 March, 2024
    News in-depthIreland
    Sinn Féin struggles to keep ‘angry vote’ after referendum loss

    Populist party soared in polls but has leached support to small anti-immigration rivals

    Sinn Fein leader Mary Lou McDonald speaks to the media outside Dublin castle following the referendum on March 9
  • Friday, 8 March, 2024
    News in-depthIreland
    Ireland votes on changing women’s ‘duties’ in constitution

    Proposed amendments would axe references to ‘life within the home’ and change definition of family

    Women gathered outside the Mansion House Dublin on March 4 re-enact a 1937 protest at the insertion of Article 41.2 into the constitution
  • Wednesday, 6 March, 2024
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    Why women need to talk about porn

    Pornography is here to stay, two new books argue — so it’s crucial to understand how it shapes everyone

    A room set up with recording equipment
  • Wednesday, 6 March, 2024
    Lijia Zhang
    China’s invisible women deserve a political voice

    In an era of shrinking population, inequality damages the country — gender quotas should be reformed and implemented properly

    Female attendants serve tea before the opening session of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, in March
  • Saturday, 3 February, 2024
    On Wall StreetAnjli Raval
    What the voices of female executives reveal on investor calls

    While study shows ‘uptalk’ can point to earnings disappointments, there is broader bias against women

  • Friday, 26 January, 2024
    Data PointsJohn Burn-Murdoch
    A new global gender divide is emerging

    Young men and young women’s world views are pulling apart. The consequences could be far-reaching

  • Monday, 22 January, 2024
    Frank Vogl
    World Bank’s strategy on gender-based violence must include NGOs

    Organisations on the ground are key to tackling sextortion and stopping corruption

    People walk in front of t World Bank building in Washington DC
  • Saturday, 13 January, 2024
    The Weekend Essay
    The statue that moved — and the cousin I never knew

    Clair Wills entered adulthood at a time when the limits placed on Irish women seemed in steady retreat. Then a family discovery revealed a messier reality

    A faint document from a mother and baby home hangs on ribbons next to a pair of baby shoes and a black-and-white photograph of a woman
  • Tuesday, 5 December, 2023
    Italy
    Italy student murder sparks women’s rights debate

    Thousands join funeral of Giulia Cecchettin who was stabbed to death by her ex-boyfriend

    Mourners at Giulia Cecchettin’s funeral in Basilica of Santa Giustina, Padua, Italy on December 5 2023
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