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  Lloyd's of London appoints first female chief executive in 325-year history

  16 Dec 2013: Industry veteran Inga Beale will replace Richard Ward in January as boss of world's largest insurance market

• Ethiopian women pay high price for US aid abortion restrictions

  16 Dec 2013: Claire Provost: Reproductive health has risen up aid donors' agendas, but USAid restrictions mean NGOs are shying away from working on abortion

• Women on screen aren't allowed to grow old erotically

  16 Dec 2013: Lynne Segal: If older women are given TV and film roles at all, their bodies are still subject to one of the last sex taboos

• From bullied child to transgender woman: my coming of age

  15 Dec 2013:

  Paris Lees: I always knew I was a girl, but for years that life seemed an impossible dream. It was a difficult journey involving sex work, depression and a spell in borstal

• Segregation by gender has no place in our public realm

  15 Dec 2013: Catherine Bennett: The appeasers have much to learn from those Muslim women vehemently opposed to discrimination

• Segregation: our secular values need to be protected

  15 Dec 2013: Observer editorial: A fearless debate should be encouraged to protect the fundamental values of a secular society

• Give Barbie a break

  13 Dec 2013: Letters: Yes, Barbie being totally pink is sucky. But, by seven, your daughter will be over the pink thing

• Retailers like Lululemon know how to make money: make women feel bad

  13 Dec 2013:

  Heidi Moore: Retailers reinforce negative body images so people buy clothes. It's terrible, and it won't change until it hurts their bottom line

• Universities UK withdraws advice on gender segregation in lectures

  13 Dec 2013: Body that represents higher education institutions says it is reviewing guidance after criticism from PM

• Southbank festival asks: what is it like to be a modern man?

  13 Dec 2013: A new festival at London's Southbank Centre explores what it takes to be a man, without getting too touchy feely

• Michael Gove: university gender segregation is 'pandering to extremism'

  13 Dec 2013: Education secretary says Universities UK should withdraw guidance that allows male and female students to be separated

• Iranian city picks Islamic republic's first female minority ethnic mayor

  12 Dec 2013: Choice of Samieh Baluchzehi, a 26-year-old from Baluch minority, is even more notable as she is a Sunni Muslim in Shia-dominated Iran

• No, Tom Newton-Dunn, a skirt can't undermine what a woman says

  12 Dec 2013: Nell Frizzell: There's been Thatcher's handbag and Widdecombe's hair. Now Stella Creasy's skirt is distracting idiots from real issues

• The story of a girl activist - Egypt

  Guardian Professional, 12 Dec 2013:

  "I'm fighting for: peace, civil rights, freedom, justice, women's rights – I'm fighting for my utopia," says Yara Hady, 17

• The story of a girl activist - Afghanistan

  Guardian Professional, 12 Dec 2013:

  "Although girls are treated as second class citizens in my community, we should not forget that Afghanistan's situation is changing," says Farkhonda Tahery, 16

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