The New Statesman, 5 December 2017 We all know that men in politics tend to shout more loudly than women, but when a big data analysis showed that there wasn’t a single female voice in the top ten most influential British political journalists on Twitter during the recent general election campaign, the general reaction was […]
Dec 05, 2017 | Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: authority, bias, feminism, genderbias, journalists, leadership, metoo, politicaljournalism, politics, sexism, twitter, ukpolitics, women, yvettecooper | Leave A Comment »
The Independent, February 25th 2013 All the ingredients conspire to give the men a sense of entitlement and the women too little power to fight back It’s a man’s world, Westminster. More than three-quarters of MPs are male. Granted, the secretaries are mostly women, but so rare is the sight of a young blonde […]
Feb 25, 2013 | Categories: Politics | Tags: affairs, andrew robathan, late nights, lechery, MPs, power, sex, stella creasy, westminster, women | Leave A Comment »
The Independent, January 16th 2013 The fact that all the national daily papers have male political editors, and many have all-male political teams, is bound to affect the issues they cover and the politicians they rate On Tuesday evening, a rare gaggle of political women met for drinks in a room in the House […]
Jan 16, 2013 | Categories: Politics | Tags: andrew neil, daily mirror, daily politics, danny finkelstein, fiona mactaggart, independent, lobby, political editors, reporters, women | Leave A Comment »
The Independent, January 2nd 2013 The pressure to look attractive can be the worst part of being female A friend went to the wedding of a British man and his Texan girlfriend. She looked across the aisle and saw a whole row of identical-looking women. “I didn’t know Diane had so many sisters,” she said […]
Jan 02, 2013 | Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: advertising, airbrushed, beauty, body image, cosmetic surgery, fashion, girls, implants, makeover shows, models, plastic surgeon, regulation, women | Leave A Comment »
The 20th-century model designed for men with wives at home isn’t suited to the 21st century
Jun 25, 2012 | Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: anne-marie slaughter, cherie blair, flexible, harvard business school, have it all, heidi rozen, helen fraser, men, princeton, women, work, yummy mummy | Leave A Comment »
We’ll know equality has arrived when we ask a man ‘What will you do after the baby is born?’
May 14, 2012 | Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: baby, discrimination, equality, flexible, flexible working, maternity, men, parental leave, pregnant, shared, women | Leave A Comment »
They’re patronised when they’re young, and deemed past it at their peak
Apr 09, 2012 | Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: BBC, caroline thomson, chauvinist, condescension, helen boaden, lynne featherstone, misogyny, patronising, quentin letts, sexism, sexist, women | Leave A Comment »
Women feel depressed because the ‘ideal shape’ is almost as remote from reality as Barbie’s
Jan 09, 2012 | Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: airbrushing, anorexia, barbie, body image, breast implants, cosmetic surgery, eating disorders, fashion, girls, models, women | Leave A Comment »
Queens have been even better at running the country than Kings
Oct 31, 2011 | Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: boards, elizabeth I, elizabeth II, george eliot, jane austen, jk rowling, king, kings, monarchy, queen, queen victoria, queens, quotas, vs naipaul, women | Leave A Comment »
As politics shows, good intentions are all very well but progress is achingly slow
Feb 28, 2011 | Categories: Politics | Tags: all-women shortlists, ann clwyd, boards, business, conservative, corporate, daily telegraph, david cameron, demeaning, harriet harman, Labour, lord davies of abersoch, max hastings, politics, quotas, theresa may, tory, trade unions, veronica wadley, women | Leave A Comment »
