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: 50.50When austerity in the UK makes the poorest even poorerCuts to welfare reform in Northern Ireland, rolled out two years later than in the rest of the United Kingdom, look...
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Published in: 50.50Who Cooked Adam Smith’s Dinner? Women and work post-crash
The value of women’s unpaid and undervalued work is slowly beginning to be appreciated: the time is right for a...
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Published in: 50.50Trapped: women fleeing violence in the UKThe raft of cuts affecting the women's sector, and election promises made by Labour and the Conservatives not to...
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Published in: 50.50The cuts hit home: austerity in Oxford
Across the UK different services are bearing the brunt of cuts in different areas. In Oxfordshire, the county which...
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Published in: 50.50Women in prison: the cycle of violence
Most women in prison in Britain have experienced sexual or domestic violence, yet the system fails to address their...
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Published in: 50.50Whose recovery?: Gendered austerity in the UK
The impact of government spending cuts, combined with structural sexism in the UK, means that for British women,...