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Jessica Valenti: my life as a ‘sex object’In her teens, strangers flashed her on the subway, teachers asked her for hugs and boys made jokes about her breasts. Should she laugh off a lifetime of objectification – or get angry?
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Hadley Freeman: single women, bag that man now!Modern women, much of the media narrative goes, are screwed when it comes to Catching A Man. Feminism’s all well and good, but you can’t argue with biology -
The woman at the wheel – archive25 May 1914: Whatever the case for or against her, the woman driver has come to stay -
Why is local government so blokey?A swathe of powerful mayoralties is being created across the north of England, yet, so far, few women have put themselves forward
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In the world of 1980s television, female characters and writers were everywhere. What’s gone wrong?Carla Lane created funny women – because that was the norm in the 80s
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Food blogs, Instagram posts and gluten-free brownies may seem like quintessentially modern artefacts. But perhaps we’ve been here beforeAre today’s clean-eating women really so different from 1950s housewives?
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Women, face it: marriage can never be feminist – videoJulie Bindel asks why so many feminists are trying to reclaim marriage as a subversive act
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Why do women still die in childbirth, asks Emily Watson – videoImagine having a baby with no midwives, doctors or medicines nearby. Each year, more than 300,000 women die after complications in pregnancy and childbirth
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Woman made to wear heels to work: ‘This is a women’s rights issue’ – videoA woman who was sent home from work unpaid on her first day due to her refusal to wear heels says she will push for a petition she started to be debated in parliament
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The abolitionist has received criticism this week for her stern expression on a new $20 bill. But from Margaret Thatcher to Victoria Wood, women are marginalised and subject to sexism even when they are no longer alive‘Cheer up, love’ – why is Harriet Tubman being told to smile 100 years after her death?
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Anne-Marie Slaughter: ‘Care is not a woman’s job any more than breadwinning is a man’s’The feminist politics professor, 57, on her Belgian grandparents, seeing beauty in a puddle, and her sons wanting to be artists
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The year in sexism: how did women fare in 2015?Over the past 12 months, women ‘ruined Fifa’ and were told that not doing enough housework was making them fat. From Nigel Farage making a boob of himself to the supposed death of feminism, here’s a look at 2015’s most misogynist moments
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MP Jess Phillips: ‘You have to be a remarkable woman to get to the top … average men get there all the time’She’s unfazed by threats from the men’s-rights lobby, unafraid to speak her mind about Corbyn’s shadow cabinet and will ‘have a word’ with Seumas Milne about his friendship with George Galloway. We meet the Labour MP
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If you want flexible working you have to be upfront and unashamed about itWith two children there was no way I wanted to work full-time, so I began each job interview by pointing that out. Sometimes you have to ask for what you want
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When I asked for flexible working recruiters said it didn't existNine out of 10 managers say they would consider offering flexible working to hire the best person, yet none of them say that at the recruitment stage. Why?
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#SayHerName: why Kimberlé Crenshaw is fighting for forgotten women