Dawn Foster was a journalist, writing predominantly on social affairs, politics, economics and women's rights. She was co-editor of openDemocracy 50.50. She spent several years working at The Guardian newspaper before freelancing full-time. She was a regular contributor to The Guardian, London Review of Books, Times Literary Supplement, New Humanist, and regularly appeared as a political commentator on BBC's Newsnight and Sky News. She had previously worked in politics and higher education.
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Published in: HomeIs capitalism destroying feminism? An interview with Dawn FosterMany assume that women, at the top, will act in the best interests of their gender. Nobody asks if people like...
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Published in: 50.50"Men get more freedom": women and memoir writingJuliet Jacques spoke to Dawn Foster about her new book, Trans: A Memoir, and the struggles of gender typecasting in the media
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Published in: 50.50Jeremy Corbyn and women: a matter of policy not appointmentMedia responses have pointed to the lack of women in the new shadow cabinet, but the policy response to austerity...
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Published in: 50.50Women's paid and unpaid work, and the colonial hangoverAt the International Association for Feminist Economics conference, social scientists, researchers and economists...
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Published in: 50.50"Can I help?" Emotional labour and precarityWith increasing precarity post-crash, are women's jobs subject to more psychological labour than ever before?
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Published in: 50.50"There’s nothing left" - women’s future under the Conservatives in the UKWith a Conservative victory in the UK election, even deeper cuts are looming for women already in poverty and at...