Cathy Newman
We need to talk about girls’ mental health
Since when did being a girl become such a worry? New research from Girlguiding suggests we should all be very, well, anxious about a plethora of anxieties afflicting our teenagers.
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Women turned away from cash-strapped refuges
Domestic violence shatters lives, yet more than 1,000 women have been turned away from refuges since the start of this year, according to new figures. The Bureau of Investigative Journalism has also found that cash-strapped councils have cut their funding for domestic violence shelters by almost a quarter since 2010, leaving many vulnerable women with nowhere to go.…
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Judge warns women of rape risk if they get drunk
In her last word before retiring from the judging circuit – Lindsey Kushner warned women they could be at greater risk of being raped if they get drunk.
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Annie Lennox on International Women’s Day
This Wednesday will mark International Women’s Day and, ahead of this year’s event, supporters gathered in central London for a march organised by the charity Care International. One of its main speakers was the singer Annie Lennox.
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US Elections: Glass ceiling intact
For Democrats and many women across the world, last night was supposed to see the shattering of the big symbolic gender glass ceiling – a woman finally getting into the Oval Office.
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Cathy Newman
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Cathy Newman
Tampons should not be taxed. Period.
Australia appears to be leading the way in abolishing the so-called “tampon tax” – so why does the UK taxman still class “sanitary products” as “luxuries”?
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Cathy Newman
The Sun: from naked breasts to barely-there bikinis
The Sun has waited until the idea of displaying women’s breasts in a family newspaper is so laughable it can’t claim any credit whatsoever for moving with the times.
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Remains found of missing Mexico student
DNA tests on charred human remains found in a rubbish tip in Mexico have confirmed that they are the remains of one of the 43 students who went missing 10 weeks ago.
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Cathy Newman
Why Ukip has a problem with women
While the Ukip leader Nigel Farage has rightly said he won’t “pretend” to win over women voters, he should perhaps search a little harder for his inner feminist.
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Jackie Long
How WWI changed the lives of Britain’s women
They were widows. They were bereaved mothers, sisters and friends. But women in the first world war were so much more too.
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Cathy Newman
How can MPs win the trust of mums?
What do mums think about politicians? Not much, Cathy Newman finds, and with 75 per cent of the House of Commons male – that doesn’t look likely to change soon.
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How bad is Cameron’s ‘women problem’? FactCheck Q&A
David Cameron’s been accused of having a “women problem”. Does he? And have this morning’s movements in the cabinet helped?
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Has Labour hit the Tory weak spot in the battle of the sexes? FactCheck
It’s the latest round in the battle of the sexes, and Ed Miliband hasn’t held back from throwing a punch at what Labour thinks is the Tories’ weak spot. Is he right?
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Westminster’s battle of the sexes – FactCheck Q&A
From the so-called “Blair babes” to opposition cries that one in four of Tory female MPs elected in 2010 is leaving, is the face of Westminster really looking more manly? FactCheck has a look.
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FactCheck: how big a problem is female genital mutilation?
Are hundreds of thousands of women in the UK living with female genital mutilation, as a new study claims? FactCheck investigates.
