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Published in: 50.50What's a woman worth?: wages and democracy in Cambodia
In demanding higher wages, Cambodian women are refusing the status of the proverbial “second-class (global)...
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Published in: 50.50Neoliberal neopatriarchy: the case for gender revolution
We are living in a distinctive moment when neoliberal capitalism and neopatriarchy converge. Male dominance is no...
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Published in: 50.50US Republicans and their “Female Troubles”
As the 2014 midterm elections loom on the horizon, American Republicans fear they may lose a sizable female vote...
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Published in: 50.50Getting serious about data on women
Unprecedented access to data and information has been a tremendous boon to those who care about the situation of...
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Published in: 50.50The war on women: The newly invisible and undeserving poor in America
The U.S. Congress is fighting over how much to cut food assistance to needy families. Everyone knows that women and...
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Published in: 50.50Women in Sierra Leone: Resisting dispossession
Women are losing their land and livelihoods in the face of land grabs, discriminatory traditions and customs, and...
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Published in: 50.50The rape victims prosecuted for "false" rape allegations
Gail Sherwood was raped three times by a stalker, forced to retract her allegations and sentenced to two years in...
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Published in: 50.50Working class feminism is alive and well, and it doesn’t need ‘re-branding’
The recession has caused a political resurgence amongst women in some of our poorest communities, but both their...
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Published in: 50.50Backlash: The unintended consequences of western human rights intervention
The collision of well-intentioned western activists and imperilled activists in the Global South illustrates the...
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Published in: 50.50Human rights, social justice, and US exceptionalism
American politicians often talk as if human rights were only relevant in other countries, but grassroots...
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Published in: 50.50Mandela: towards a non-sexist South Africa
Part of the blessing of Mandela’s longevity is that he modeled reflexive behaviour which changed over time. To...
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Published in: 50.50Sexual exploitation in street gangs: protecting girls or changing boys?
In its recent report on sexual exploitation in street gangs, the Office of the Children's Commissioner for England...
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Published in: 50.50Women's human security rights in the Arab world: on nobody's agenda
Security breakdown has wreaked havoc with women’s lives in Arab transition countries, but it is hardly recognized in...
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Published in: 50.50Immunity and impunity in peace keeping: the protection gap
Trafficking and sexual exploitation are an integral part of armed conflict and its aftermath. Madeleine Rees argues...
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Published in: 50.50Finland’s paradox of equality: professional excellence, domestic abuse
Finland is regularly touted as a paragon of gender equality and one of the most progressive countries for women’s...
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Published in: 50.50Political motherhood vs violence against mothers
The Activist Mothers of Xalapa have united their individual power as mothers to create a collective political...
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Published in: 50.50Gender and development debates: overlooking diversity
Twenty five years after Gita Sen and Caren Grown made an appeal for development practitioners to use the diversity...
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Published in: 50.50Marxism and feminism have a lot to tell each other: can they find the words?
Thirty years ago women were writing of 'the unhappy marriage of marxism and feminism'. Though the two schools of...
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Published in: 50.50On girls, performance and the internet
Meet Catherine Bennett: an alternative, positive role model for girls. Created as an antidote to the flood of sexual...
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Published in: 50.50Feminism: We are not calling for equal inequality
"Feminism is only frightening to those who gain the most from oppression, to those who would stifle the human spirit...