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Published in: 50.50The promise of gender parity: Turkey’s People’s Democratic Party (HDP)
The Turkish HDP's egalitarian gender ideology played a key role in the election of a record number of women to...
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Published in: 50.50Your fatwa does not apply here
The UN Human Rights Council has appointed Karima Bennoune as Special Rapporteur in the field of Cultural Rights....
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Published in: 50.50Documenting women’s lives: mothers' names on marriage certificates
In 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: 50.50"Men get more freedom": women and memoir writing
Juliet 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: 50.50Why 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: 50.50The overlooked history of women against feminism
Anti-feminists do not hold an obvious place within feminist history, but the tradition dates back to the late-18th century.
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Published in: 50.50Jeremy Corbyn and women: a matter of policy not appointment
Media 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: 50.50Friendship and violence: the genius of Elena Ferrante
Elena Ferrante’s novels have become a word of mouth success, despite the Italian literary world’s snobbery, because...
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Published in: 50.50Mobilising for peace and freedom: from aspiration to lasting change
The 2015 WILPF manifesto outlines how those who choose peace over conflict must act, and recognises that...
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Published in: 50.50Manic Pixies and Cool Girls: on female solidarity and the male gaze
Pop 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: 50.50Unlimited parental leave: progress or PR coup?
The new Netflix employee perk doesn't stand up to scrutiny, but softens their brand.
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Published in: 50.50Can Russia confront the horrors of its domestic violence epidemic?
With the murder of a pregnant woman and her six children, Russia’s domestic violence epidemic again briefly surfaces...
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Published in: 50.50Women's working lives in the ‘new’ university
Is there room for any women other than the "exceptional woman", let alone women with children, in the new...
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Published in: 50.50RIP NLP: Five lessons from the life and death of New Left Project
If we want a diverse and democratic media landscape, we need to figure out how to fund it.
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Published in: 50.50Believing women's narratives in Sweden and Norway
Too often women's oppression is sidelined as a lesser cause, and women's experiences dismissed, as two cases in...
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Published in: 50.50Pirates of the European Union
Only when we approach gender equality mainstreaming in a more strategic way can we claim that gender equality is a...
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Published in: 50.50Women's paid and unpaid work, and the colonial hangover
At the International Association for Feminist Economics conference, social scientists, researchers and economists...
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Published in: 50.50Why are so many Syrian children being left stateless?
Syrian women advocates recognize the links between the crisis of statelessness and the lack of reproductive justice...
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Published in: 50.50Haki Stërmilli’s 'If I Were a Boy': the first Albanian feminist manifesto
Haki Stërmilli 1936 novel If I Were a Boy portrays the contemporary problems of Albanian society that stem from a...
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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...