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Published in: 50.50Jeremy Corbyn and the myth of the hysterical womanIt is an indictment of the status quo that policies which will benefit women and people of colour are being...
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Published in: 50.50Exposing the daily violence of women's hotel workEmployment conditions in hotels are hidden, but activists are going undercover to expose the terrible working...
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Published in: 50.50Separate and isolated: women and cuts to English language classesTwo thirds of English for speakers of other languages students are women, yet the British government is slashing...
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Published in: 50.50Jeremy Corbyn: Labour’s gift to British women?Jeremy Corbyn's Working with Women policy document has been well received by feminists, but the silence on the...
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Published in: 50.50'Disappearing' sex workers in the Amnesty International debateAn Amnesty draft policy to protect women in sex work has attracted a fierce debate, but sex workers' voices are...
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Published in: 50.50Women post-recession: moving towards insecurityAfter the recession, the rise in casual and precarious contracts is entrenching gender inequality in the UK.
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Published in: 50.50Towards Plan F: planning for a feminist economy in the UKFeminists must reject mainstream austerity rhetoric and challenge politicians to adopt an alternative 'Plan F' to...
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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: 50.50Addressing global taxation and gender equalityThe increased call on countries to maximise local revenue in order to finance their own development agenda adds to...
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Published in: 50.50Big infrastructure: getting gender and the needs of women wrongInfrastructural investment is back on the agenda, but gender is still being sidelined in development and across...
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Published in: 50.50Sick and tired: Sri Lankan domestic workers fight back against violenceAs protesters demand justice for domestic workers after a brutal assault, isn't it time we all became sick and tired...
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Published in: 50.50The sexual and reproductive health issue you’ve probably never heard of….
Why is one of the most common gynaecological conditions in sub-Saharan Africa, schistosomiasis, misunderstood,...
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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: 50.50Conflict 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: 50.50How land rights are politicising Cambodia's women
Land grabbing and forced evictions have created an activist movement among women who traditionally conform to strict...
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Published in: 50.50Awaiting justice: Indigenous resistance in the tar sands of CanadaThe Nation of the Lubicon Cree is on the frontlines of environmental destruction, as it challenges the forces behind...
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Published in: 50.50When austerity in the UK makes the poorest even poorer
Cuts 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: 50.50Hidden women human rights defenders in the UKWithout recognising the work of women who seek to protect human rights domestically, the UK government risks seeing...
