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Zahra Joya Refuses to Let Afghanistan’s Women Vanish From the Record
In a new interview, Afghan journalist Zahra Joya connects her own forbidden education to the reporters still documenting life under Taliban rule. Her testimony shows why women’s journalism is not merely representation: it is evidence against enforced erasure.
Zahra Joya Refuses to Let Afghanistan’s Women Vanish From the Record
In a new interview, Afghan journalist Zahra Joya connects her own forbidden education to the reporters still documenting life under Taliban rule. Her testimony shows why women’s journalism is not merely representation: it is evidence against enforced erasure.
Six Weeks for Fathers Could Give Mothers More Room to Recover and Stay Employed
A campaign backed by 105 UK Labour MPs seeks six weeks of paternity leave paid at 90% of earnings. Better leave for partners is also women’s economic policy because it can redistribute early care, support maternal recovery and weaken the assumption that mothers alone step back from work.
Menopause Supplements Promise Precision That the Evidence Does Not Yet Provide
A UK market analysis found 201 menopause supplements with widely varying ingredients, doses and prices, while evidence for symptom relief remains limited. Women deserve clear labelling and clinical advice—not the assumption that “natural” means effective or risk-free.
UK MPs Reject Assisted-Dying Bill After a Debate Shaped by Care and Safeguards
Britain’s House of Commons rejected a new assisted-dying bill by 286 votes to 270. The result leaves the law unchanged and renews scrutiny of palliative care, disability rights and the largely female workforce that would help implement any future system.
Green Women’s Misogyny Claims Test Whether a Progressive Party Listens Inward
Women in England and Wales’s Green Party say they have been sidelined, patronised or intimidated and want the autumn conference to order structural reforms. The allegations are not findings of misconduct, but they pose a legitimate test of whether an equality platform is reflected in internal practice.
Yuja Asks What Virtuosity Costs When a Woman’s Appearance Competes With Her Music
Lorna Tucker’s documentary follows pianist Yuja Wang through performance, practice and isolation. Its most urgent cultural question is why coverage of a woman musician can still make clothing as visible as artistic command.
Noel Clarke Faces Six Sexual-Offence Charges Involving Five Women
British prosecutors have authorised six charges over alleged conduct between 2007 and 2016. Active proceedings require precise, restrained reporting that protects both the complainants and the defendant’s right to a fair trial.
Noel Clarke Faces Six Sexual-Offence Charges Involving Five Women
British prosecutors have authorised six charges over alleged conduct between 2007 and 2016. Active proceedings require precise, restrained reporting that protects both the complainants and the defendant’s right to a fair trial.
The Bayeux Tapestry Returns to England—and So Does the Question of Women’s Work
The British Museum is preparing to display the 70-metre embroidery in England for the first time in nearly a millennium. Its battle narrative contains only three women, but the labour of women may be embedded in nearly every stitch.
Next’s Equal-Pay Appeal Resets a Major Test for Women in Retail
Britain’s Employment Appeal Tribunal accepted market recruitment pressures as justification for higher basic pay in male-dominated warehouses than in female-dominated stores. Other premium-pay claims survived, and the workers plan a further appeal
Britain Considers Shrinking Women’s Prisons to Ease Men’s Capacity Crisis
: Ministers are reviewing whether parts of the women’s prison estate could be converted for men. Reformers see an opening to reduce unnecessary imprisonment of women, but warn that removing beds before building community support would transfer rather than solve the crisis.
Francesca Albanese Says Britain’s Settlement-Trade Ban Must Be a Beginning
The UN special rapporteur welcomed Britain’s proposed ban on trade with Israeli settlements while arguing that goods alone are too narrow a test of legal consistency. Her intervention asks whether a policy reset will change material relationships or simply its language.
A Deadlocked Trial Exposed the Gaps Around Postpartum Psychosis
A Massachusetts jury could not agree whether Lindsay Clancy was criminally responsible when she killed her three children. The case cannot diagnose other mothers, but it has exposed how little many families and clinicians know about a rare, severe and treatable postpartum emergency.
Emma Reyes Enters London’s Canon Without Surrendering Colombia
White Cube has opened the first UK solo presentation of Colombian artist Emma Reyes. The exhibition brings a self-taught woman’s six-decade practice into a major commercial space while asking who gets recognised internationally—and who controls the story after an artist’s death.
Women Headliners Put Bristol’s Clean-Power Festival Infrastructure to the Test
Lorde, Little Simz, Tems and other women artists are performing as Bristol trials renewable temporary power at major cultural events. The project could reduce diesel pollution for audiences and crews if its emissions claims survive independent measurement.
Anita Hill Scholarship Offers Five $10,000 Awards to US Law Students
The scholarship supports second- and third-year law students committed to civil rights, democracy and gender equity. Applications close on 22 September.
MacKenzie Scott’s Unrestricted Education Giving Offers a Different Power Model
Scott has reportedly given $461 million to California public-education institutions since 2021 while allowing recipients to decide how to use the money.