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From Dapper Laughs’ TV show to the Sun’s ‘date with a Page 3 girl’ prize, too much media and culture is created without women in mind. It doesn’t have to be this way, says Laura Bates
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Four decades after the launch of an ambitious charter, only four of the 10 demands have been met. Emine Saner asks what went wrong
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To mark the centenary of the first world war we’ve been asking readers to share their photos and memories of the wartime experiences of the women in their families. You can see all the contributions - or submit your own - via GuardianWitness
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Every year, a growing proportion of those convicted of drink-driving are women. Does it reveal a new – and often hidden – drinking problem? Lucy Rock investigates
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She’s a campaigner. She counts calories 24/7. Thinking about food takes up more energy than her career. Does Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett have an eating disorder?
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Laura Bates: Focusing on the response of the victim rather than dealing with the perpetrator will not solve the problem
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Luisa Dillner: More than half of women going through the menopause report that their symptoms are affecting them. But with HRT linked to breast cancer, is there anything a GP can do to help?
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Growing wealth divide allows high-fliers who can afford childcare to have families, study suggests
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Pakistani American Aizzah Fatima was disillusioned with stereotypical roles for Muslim actors, so she wrote her own one-woman play, Dirty Paki Lingerie, writes Homa Khaleeli
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Florida-based photographer Adam Opris’s latest project features pregnant women underwater, giving them the appearance of mermaids
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Tolu Ogunlesi: The doctor prevented the spread of Ebola in Nigeria – and paid with her life. Now we should honour her, and the other health workers whose dedication is inspirational
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Japan is a country where thinness is the norm. So can a trend embracing ‘chubbiness’ help young women reject fat-shaming stereotypes? By Abigail Haworth
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Fern Riddell: The idea that orgasms were administered to women by doctors is pure fantasy
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Homa Khaleeli: The prime minister has refused to wear a T-shirt declaring ‘This is what a feminist looks like’. For once, he’s right
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The recent attempts to scapegoat feminism reveal a society that is hopefully beginning to change
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Tolu Ogunlesi: The doctor prevented the spread of Ebola in Nigeria – and paid with her life. Now we should honour her, and the other health workers whose dedication is inspirational
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The markers of adult life are shifting – no wonder we’re turning to agony aunts and uncles for guidance. Isabelle O’Carroll reports
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This term, compulsory workshops on the issue of sexual consent have been introduced at Oxford and Cambridge. A fresher and a facilitator share their experiences
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Laura Bates: As a new university year dawns, there are the depressingly familiar reports of misogynistic behaviour. Should young women really have to endure this to get a degree?
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Erica Buist: Has feminism advanced so far that women’s voices no longer need to be heard? The decision not to invite any female speakers smacked of missing the point
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A study of work appraisals shows that personal criticisms are levelled at women far more than men. And it’s just one example of how society tries to bring high-flying women down to earth, writes Laura Bates
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Beejoli Shah: Is the song, which crashed into the singles chart on Sunday, actually bad for women?
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Laura Bates: The reproductive cycle of a pea or a roll of sticky tape means very little to a young person thinking about sex and relationships for the first time. Why are so many children not being taught about consent or sexuality?
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Homa Khaleeli: Bollywood star Deepika Padukone’s ‘cleavage row’ with an Indian newspaper is just another depressing example of how women in the public eye are reduced to their body parts
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Laura Bates: Students’ first experience of university life should not include sexist abuse and intimidation. Students’ groups are taking up the fight but where is the leadership from the universities?
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Emma Lundin: The feminist party fell short of the 4% threshold required to win seats in parliament, but its continued growth sends a clear message that gender equality is an important issue for Swedes
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Laura Bates: Women are being killed in a society that sends the message, clearly and repeatedly, that they are sexual objects for men’s gratification and possession
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Laura Bates: Since I founded the Everyday Sexism Project, I have been writing about the abuses that women face: from catcalling to violence. With almost comforting regularity, the same criticisms appear below-the-line. Here is my reply
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Delhi declaration identifies male engagement as key component in achieving gender justice
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Comedian ‘puts character to rest’ on BBC show following cancellation of UK tour dates due to outrage over rape remarks
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James Harding says BBC is a ‘lightning rod’ for social issues and that wider problems are perceived based on individual cases
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Reese Witherspoon’s Wild is among 17 of the 42 films being shown at the 24th Bath film festival to be given an F rating for their strong female leads, directors or screenwriters
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Michaelia Cash produces emails showing showing peak body declined an invitation to take part in roundtable talks
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Network will not commission second series after 60,000 sign petition saying it helps normalise everyday sexism
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Nearly 250 experts, including Jane Lubchenco, have signed a letter saying infighting and exclusion of women and minorities within the conservation movement is preventing effective action worldwide
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Immigration minister Scott Morrison revokes visa after public reacts angrily to Blanc’s seminars teaching men how to pick up women using force and emotional abuse
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The wife of president Ashraf Ghani has surprised many Afghans by speaking out on women and internally displaced people
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Report authors recommend urgent measures to address low proportion of women and minority ethnic judges
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From the first Haitian-American elected to Congress to the youngest-ever state legislator, the 2014 midterms produced some notable election precedents
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Promotion offered subscribers who recruited 10 or more players to their fantasy football league the chance to win a date with a Page 3 girl
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Charity behind ‘This is what a feminist looks like’ shirts says evidence refutes Mail claims they were made in a sweatshop
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Government agrees to investigate after women’s rights groups call on supermarkets to stop sexist pricing policies
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But report warns population growth could outpace family planning programmes in some countries despite range of contraception initiatives
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Suzanne Moore: Every generation of women create ways to hate themselves and amplify their anxieties in public – and it’s time to stop
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Hadley Freeman: Men who pay attention (and money) to pick-up artists have an inner rage against female free will. And you might work with one
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Tony Needham: Unlike many Sheffield United fans, I’ve changed my mind: re-signing Evans would only trivialise and normalise rape
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Better birth control measures are available but seldom offered to women from poor families who are either forced to get operated or bribed via so-called ‘incentives’
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Claire Moore: Targets won’t be achieved without policies ensuring women do not take on the double burden of precarious paid work while remaining responsible for the unpaid care economy
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Lindy West: The odious Blanc specialises in ‘helping’ desperate men by turning them into repulsive, entitled, sexually aggressive creeps with horrible fashion sense. Why should he get a visa?
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Jessica Valenti: The artist is mad that you think she’s ‘boy-crazy’ – and you don’t want to make Taylor Swift mad
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Laura McNally: Child sex abuse is not so far removed from the glamorised world of adult pornography – in fact, it is part of its continuum
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Jessica Valenti: Breasts onstage. Breasts on Facebook. Breasts everywhere! Our body parts are just that: one part of who we are – and they’re not public property
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Barbara Ellen: What is it about the word ‘feminist’ that makes women flinch?
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Jemima Kiss: Emboldened by an aggressive and counterproductive campaign of abuse, the culture writer refuses to be intimidated by Gamergate
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Little has changed for older women in the wake of the Miriam O’Reilly ageism case, writes former BBC Current Affairs reporter
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Editorial: Female presenters can inspire ambition, but only if the many barriers confronting them are swept away. Television must conduct itself better
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Holly Baxter: Men don’t have to fend off unwanted sexual comments in the way women do. It’s about putting women back in their place
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Roxane Gay: The ‘comedian’ couldn’t keep his desire or entitlement to himself while ESPN anchor Cari Champion did her job. He just had to make sure we all knew about it
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Nell Frizzell: Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, who may have been the real genius of Duchamp's urinal, exemplifies a culture that assumes risk-taking to be a male preserve
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Lynn Shelton: For years, cinema didn’t seem able to cope with the concept of a rounded female character. Now times have changed, but the pressure on both genders to stay traditional remains intense
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Jessica Valenti: Record numbers don’t matter if the party is still targeting women’s rights – and if elected women are still throwing their own gender under the bus
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Patrick Strudwick: Rose McGowan is right that the gay rights movement has tended to ignore women. But sexism is everywhere – the bulk of the hate comes from heterosexuals
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Follow Harriet Gibsone's five simple steps to becoming a 'post-feminist' icon
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Mexico's complex and polarised abortion debate has had a direct impact on the lives of two young women in the country
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The shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper decries the criminal justice system for a lack of action on tackling domestic violence
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Dr Linah Kilimo ran away from home to escape the cut as a girl. She talks about impact of Kenya's female genital mutilation law
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Eliza Anyangwe: In the early 80s, diarrhoea was a major cause of child dealth in Bangladesh. Vice-chairman of Brac, Mushtaque Chowdhury, shares what his organisation learned from early failures and how it increased use of its homemade rehydration therapies from 10% to 80%
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At last week's Ending Sexual Violence in Conflict summit in London, we teamed up with ActionAid to run a video booth allowing people to record a message to world leaders. We've compiled a selection of those messages. See if yours is here
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Two years on from the London Summit on Family Planning, Melinda Gates, businesswoman and co-chair of the philanthropic Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, discusses the progress made on tackling the issue
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Protesters gather outside the Beverly Hills Hotel in Los Angeles on Monday after the hotel's owner, the Sultan of Brunei, introduced sharia law in his home country
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Miriam González Durántez interrupts Nick Clegg's speech on Wednesday to ask a question about attitudes towards men who care or their children
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The chief operating officer of the multibillion pound social network and author of Lean In – and a big Democrat supporter – talks to Jemima Kiss
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In the Amhara region of northern Ethiopia, a unique community has evolved based on egalitarian principles. Zumra Nuru, who founded Awra Amba in 1972, explains how he realised his childhood vision of creating a democratic, self-sustaining society where men and women are equals, while a young couple explain how they have benefited
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Leah Green goes undercover to see how unsuspecting men react to sexist situations experienced by women – but this time perpetrated by a female
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Jameela Jamil, presenter of the official chart show on BBC Radio 1, speaks to John Plunkett at Ad Week Europe about how she was victimised on Twitter for her criticism of Miley Cyrus
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Kenyan women who have enacted female genital mutilation (FGM) on others, and had it done to themselves, talk about their experience
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More than a decade after female genital mutilation was first outlawed in Kenya, a former cutter explains why it continues to be business as usual
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Alexandra Topping reports from Scotland, where despite a growing population of African migrant families moving there - the illegal practice of FGM continues
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Fahma Mohamed, 17, urges Michael Gove to write directly to head teachers telling them to teach FGM in their school
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Afghan women accused of "moral crimes" such as running away from their husbands are sent to jail for several years. For some of these women, however, life is better behind bars than it is outside with their husbands and family
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Jemima Kirke of TV show Girls discusses how women have always made art, even if they've been absent from the history books (and gallery walls)
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Speaking on his LBC radio show on Thursday, the deputy prime minister and Liberal Democratic party leader Nick Clegg says Lord Rennard should apologise
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