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Published in: 50.50Girls speaking truth to power at the UN: the global 2030 Agenda"Invest in adolescents. We’re not only the future, we’re the present, and we deserve to be happy." Twelve year old...
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Published in: 50.50Documenting women’s lives: mothers' names on marriage certificatesIn England and Wales in the twenty-first century we continue to perpetuate a system that writes women out of our...
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Published in: 50.50Why doesn’t patriarchy die?The prevailing common sense that things can only get better, that men and women are equal – virtually – is...
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Published in: 50.50Manic Pixies and Cool Girls: on female solidarity and the male gazePop culture tropes of ‘the girl who isn’t like other girls’ might seem subversive but they reinforce old sexist...
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Published in: 50.50The VICE guide to good intentions?VICE’s new women’s interest website Broadly offers VICE a chance to shake off its reputation for the ‘hipster...
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Published in: 50.50Women's working lives in the ‘new’ universityIs there room for any women other than the "exceptional woman", let alone women with children, in the new...
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Published in: 50.50Jack the Ripper, 'interesting history', and masculine violenceThe opening of a Jack the Ripper Museum was not only insulting in how it seemed to glorify the murder of women – it...
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Published in: 50.50Pragna Patel: a politics of hope and not hate"At the heart of my work is the idea that human beings are to be intrinsically valued, that we can all co-exist...
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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: 50.50The political legacy of shame - a brief history of women, sex and legislation in the UKFor two centuries, British lawmakers have relied on shame to regulate women's sexual behaviour. Is this finally changing?
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Published in: 50.50After Tim Hunt: another science is possibleAfter the widespread reaction to Tim Hunt’s comments on women in science, it’s time to unpick the various...
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Published in: 50.50Conflict widows: agents of change and peacebuilding
The rise of religious fundamentalism and conflict is diminishing widows to the status of a chattel. Their key role...
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Published in: 50.50Gender and tax justice
The heart of tax injustice is gender dominance, the language of secrecy, and an industry and culture which under...
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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...
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Published in: 50.50Which British party is making the most meaningful commitment to women's issues?
As the British election approaches, political parties are trading in the discourse of ‘women’s issues’. But do any...
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Published in: 50.50Violence is not inevitable: It is a choice
In 1915 a thousand women met in the Hague to demand an end to war. A thousand women are doing so again this week. It...
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Published in: 50.50"It starts with us": Breaking one of Canada's best kept secretsA coalition of women human rights defenders in Canada is demanding an end to state complicity, and a culture of...
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Published in: 50.50Shelters without walls: women building protective infrastructures against rapeWomen from Colombia, Syria, Nicaragua and Iraq are implementing multi-layered prevention strategies in their...
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Published in: 50.50The personal is political: the journey of a feminist slogan
All successful slogans are subject to misappropriation: it is a sign of their success. The personal is political –...
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Published in: 50.50Sex education in the UK: time for a far-reaching overhaul
Sex education in British schools is failing to educate children about consent and healthy relationships, or include...
