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  • Saturday, 4 February, 2023
    News in-depthIreland
    A woman’s place is in the home? Why Ireland will vote on outdated law

    Dublin seeks to modify constitutional article stipulating that domestic chores are a woman’s ‘life and duties’

  • Thursday, 19 January, 2023
    UK politics & policy
    Scotland calls on London to remove block on transgender bill

    Edinburgh minister warns that legal fight will delay implementation, causing further harm to trans people

  • Monday, 16 January, 2023
    UK politics & policy
    Sunak in constitutional clash with Sturgeon over gender reform bill

    UK government for first time moves to block legislation passed by Scottish parliament

  • Monday, 16 January, 2023
    Inside Politics
    Constitutional showdown looms over Scotland’s transgender bill

    Holyrood law to ease the process of changing legal gender need not conflict with workings of UK-wide equalities law

  • Thursday, 12 January, 2023
    UK politics & policy
    Former LGBT+ adviser warns Sunak against blocking Scottish gender bill

    Iain Anderson says move being considered by UK prime minister would hit country’s global reputation

  • Thursday, 5 January, 2023
    News in-depthAfghanistan
    Taliban’s move to block women aid workers disrupts and divides NGOs

    Donors forced to consider compromising or shutting down operations in Afghanistan

  • Thursday, 22 December, 2022
    Scotland
    Scotland passes bill to make it easier to legally change gender

    Victory for Sturgeon as MSPs vote for legislation that has sparked heated debate within her own party

  • Friday, 2 December, 2022
    FT Magazine
    Your women of 2022 — FT readers respond

    We asked you to nominate the most influential women of the year — here is what you sent us

  • Monday, 21 November, 2022
    An actual ESG success story?

    Passive investors, active owners

  • Tuesday, 15 November, 2022
    Inside BusinessMercedes Ruehl
    Singapore Airlines’ pregnancy pivot should set an example to others

    Carrier’s policy change comes as city-state is set to introduce anti-discrimination legislation

  • Wednesday, 9 November, 2022
    OutlookSilvia Sciorilli Borrelli
    Why Italy’s first woman premier wants to be called ‘Il Presidente’

    Giorgia Meloni’s request to be known by the masculine article only reinforces the notion that the role is inherently male

  • Thursday, 3 November, 2022
    ReviewFilm
    Call Jane — Elizabeth Banks stars in 1960s abortion activism drama

    Committed performances lift the timely story of a Chicago housewife helped by a pro-choice collective

  • Saturday, 29 October, 2022
    FT Weekend podcast29 min listen
    The Woman King, with producer Cathy Schulman

    Academy Award-winning producer talks about her new blockbuster film. Plus: what happened to plant-based meat?

  • Sunday, 23 October, 2022
    News in-depthCommunist Party of China
    Chinese Communists shun women as men hoard all the power

    Only one female sits on the politburo despite women making up 30% of party membership

  • Saturday, 22 October, 2022
    FT Weekend podcast31 min listen
    Jane Austen, forever. Plus: trans inclusion in sports

    New adaptations of Austen novels keep coming. Plus, we look at how elite sports approach trans inclusion

  • Saturday, 15 October, 2022
    FT Magazine
    FT readers: who are the most influential women of 2022?

    We are collecting your nominations for our upcoming Women of the Year series

  • Wednesday, 12 October, 2022
    Special ReportWomen in Business
    Young women push for greater representation in the climate debate

    A letter signed by 500 leaders from around the world is calling for a 50-50 split of men and women in the COP27 leadership team

  • Sunday, 9 October, 2022
    Pilita Clark
    It’s great to see a third female Tory PM . . . 

    But not for the reasons that a lot of people think it is

  • Friday, 23 September, 2022
    News in-depthRetail & Consumer industry
    The male beauty rebellion in China

    Foreign groups are losing ground against nimble local upstarts in the $10bn market

  • Thursday, 15 September, 2022
    FT MagazineSimon Kuper
    How to reboot men for the age of gender equality

    At the top and the bottom of society, new definitions of masculinity can help all to thrive

  • Thursday, 15 September, 2022
    ReviewTelevision
    Minx — when a porn publisher and a feminist collaborate

    A sharp, comic HBO drama about a duo on a mission to make an intellectual, soft-porn publication in 1970s LA

  • Tuesday, 16 August, 2022
    Sarah O'Connor
    It’s not always the perpetrator who pays for sexual harassment at work

    New academic research shows that senior men tend to suffer fewer career consequences than women

  • Tuesday, 2 August, 2022
    Morena Herrera
    America should heed the suffering caused by El Salvador’s abortion ban

    US states which outlaw terminations following the revocation of Roe v Wade will see a rise in preventable maternal deaths

  • Sunday, 24 July, 2022
    Viv Groskop
    Imposter syndrome is actually the human condition

    Being told to fix ourselves and self-improve ignores the wider reality of an imperfect world

  • Friday, 24 June, 2022
    Disrupted Times
    Pandemics don’t have neat endings

    UK surge in infection rates, US faces recession, give women their Wimbledon due

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