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An increasing number of women in Hull are prostituting themselves to feed their children. The Humberside Police Force and the Hull Lighthouse Project, a charity that helps street workers in Hull, blame the increase on welfare reforms and high unemployment rates. Police Constable Lorraine Summerfield, who patrols an area where prostitutes often...Leggi Tutto
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2013
Government intervention to address boys’ underperformance is not a new phenomena. With August comes the usual scrutiny of girls and boys performance in end of year examinations. But don’t let this August’s media circus allow your attention to dwindle completely from some of the key issues revealed
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2013
Welcome back to our weekly round-up of British women’s sports results from around the globe. Athletics: Women led the way for Team GB at this week’s IAAF Athletics World Championships in Moscow, winning four of Britain’s six medals. The star of the show was team captain Christine Ohuruogu, who
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2013
Join us for a national day of action as supporters hold family-friendly protests outside local Tesco stores. Have you seen the papers over the past week? Lose the Lads’ Mags has been all over the news, including the front pages of Metro and the Guardian. First the Co-operative told lads’ mags
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2013
Report finds cuts in education, benefits and support services may deter women from further and higher education. A new report by the National Union of Students (NUS) called Cut to the Quick has outlined the impact of government cuts and reforms on female students. The report quotes research from
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2013
How should we judge a society that allows violent men the chance to regain their former popularity? In 2003 French musician Bertrand Cantat struck his girlfriend Marie Trintignant, a successful and revered actor, repeatedly about the face following an argument over a text message sent to her phone
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2013
Nearly a quarter of mothers feel that they have been the subject of discrimination at work. In 2010, pregnancy and maternity became a protected characteristic covered by the Equality Act, which prohibited discrimination on the grounds of pregnancy and maternity for 26 weeks after giving birth, or
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2013
Education, not filters, should be the focus of the government’s actions. On 24 July, Prime Minister David Cameron made a speech on ‘internet and pornography’ outlining a series of new policies. One of these new policies in particular has elicited debate and no small amount of controversy: the
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2013
Film Board responds to concern about depictions of sexual and sadistic violence. Sexual violence has continued to prove divisive in the popular press, never more so than with the publication of E.L James’s erotic fiction book, Fifty Shades of Grey in 2011. The book caused outrage for its
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2013
Welcome to our weekly round-up of British women’s sports news and results from around the globe. Tennis: Laura Robson was forced to pull out of her first round match at the Rogers Cup in Toronto with a wrist injury. She was due to face Belgian player Yanina Wickmayer on 5 August. Robson is
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2013
New e-book reminds us that the struggle for women’s suffrage continues. Refreshingly, there was much positive hullaballoo surrounding the centenary of Emily Wilding Davison’s death. Brutally mown down by King George V’s horse after running on to the track at the Grand Derby in Epsom on June 8
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Page three of the Irish Sun no longer shows bare breasts. The Irish edition of Rupert Murdoch’s tabloid has adopted a more covered-up approach to the ‘glamour shot’, with this week’s ‘stars’ including former Miss World Rosanna Davison and Dutch model Sylvie van der
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UKIP’s treasurer: ‘Chess, bridge, poker – women come absolutely nowhere’. Last week, Stuart Wheeler, who has been treasurer of the UK Independence Party (UKIP) since 2011, attended a debate at the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) about whether gender quotas should be used to make
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2013
‘If I boycotted every label that didn’t use black models on catwalk I’d probably be naked.’ Model Iman is calling for a consumer boycott of fashion brands in protest at the lack of black models being employed to promote them on. She wants a return to 1960s-style direct action to hit
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2013
Finally, an advert for period products we don’t need to cringe at: a tampon ad goes viral. An advertisement for period products has gone viral, with five and a half million (and counting) YouTube hits, coverage in the Irish Times, the Guardian, and the Telegraph as well as numerous blogs. Camp
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Professor Polly Arnold launches her “call to arms” for more women in STEM subjects. According to the BBC, just one-third of the UK’s science undergraduates are female – and only 9 per cent of professors. And with inequality in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) costing
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2013
Official statistics do not back up employers claims that staff are happy on temporary or fixed-term work. According to a TUC analysis of official figures published on 12 August ahead of the latest unemployment figures, due out on 14 August, almost half of the rise in employment since 2010 has been
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2013
We are looking for a co-editor to lead on our new media watch section on the website. This new section will act as a watchdog on media representation of women in the UK. It will feature photos and videos with short comments, and will be visual and interactive, grabbing people’s attention when
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2013
Pro choice supporters fear that new legislation in Texas will limit access to abortions. Called ‘The Republicans back door abortion ban’ by critics, House Bill 2 (HB2) has caused a thunderstorm of controversy in a United States-wide debate concerning abortion services. HB2 was largely brought to
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2013
Research indicates necessity rather than choice. The number of working mothers has increased by one million since 1997, with more than 2.2 million now the main wage-earner in their family. Initially that sounds like good news, as if women are beginning to earn more equitable wages. The reality is
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2013
New research shows that boys are typically paid more than girls for carrying out household chores. A number of years ago, the Equal Opportunities Commission, as it was then, ran an advertising campaign for equal pay. The poster featured two children – one a girl and one a boy. The caption read
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2013
How do you take a 13-year-old victim of sexual abuse and turn her into a ‘sexual predator’? The UK courts can show you how. This is the point we have arrived at: a 13 year old child is sexually assaulted by an adult male and the judge and prosecutor both hold the child responsible for
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2013
A play featuring the Delhi rape case goes to the Edinburgh Fringe. The story of the young Delhi woman who was gang-raped and left for dead has been brought to the stage in a piece that has just had its fifth public performance at London’s Riverside Studios, and is now to open at the Edinburgh
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2013
Some dates for your diary of woman-centric events going on around the UK this week. Activism: 24 August: Lose The Lads’ Mags Day of Action at a Tesco store near you, from midday A day of family-friendly protests, calling on Tesco to stop selling lads’ mags. The protest will include
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2013
These are acts underpinned by the desire of neighboring countries wanting access to raw materials. by B K Kumbi, Congolese historian and activist. I would like first to thank Sarah Cheverton for this article that really tries to make sense of the horrific war in the Congo. The problem of the
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2013
Lesbians are “correctively” raped, gay men and women beaten to death, Russian police stand idly by. Green MP Caroline Lucas has written to Foreign Office Minister David Lidington expressing her “deep concerns” at Russia’s anti-gay legislation and says Britain should boycott the 2014 Winter Olympics
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Changes to Home Office guidance aim to prevent domestic abusers from owning guns. New guidelines that are part of the recently issued Firearm Guidance used by police forces are to help the police decide whether to award individuals with a firearm certificate. A three-page guidance replaces the one
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2013
Former Radio Four newsreader Charlotte Green becomes first woman in prestigious 5 Live role. I fear I hear a chorus of “So what?” from those who have no interest in football. But actually it’s quite a significant moment for women in sport. Slowly but surely, women are starting to break down the
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2013
Donations needed to support former shop worker in tribunal claim over unfair treatment of casual workers. Last month the Sports Direct group announced that it was awarding its staff an average of 12,000 shares each. But the part-time staff, the majority of the workforce, were – and are
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2013
Re-establishing the importance of respect for a woman’s life, beyond her reproductive capacity. Twelve women’s stories will be told in a new film made in response to the Irish government’s recent and limited change to Ireland’s abortion law. The new legislation, passed last month
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2013
Some dates for your diary of woman-centric events going on around the UK this week. Workshops: 14 August: Choicework: Pro Choice Embroidery Workshop and Discussion - Feminist Library, 5 Westminster Bridge Rd, London, SE1 7XW at 7pm. Choicework is a participatory patchwork piece celebrating and
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2013
Awareness campaign also a vehicle to explore the social stigma attached to female body hair. In aid of the UK’s only charity for sufferers of Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS), Verity, cis and trans women around the country are taking a break from their usual body hair removal regimes all this
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2013
Students and sex work: ‘everybody knows this goes on’. As reported in the Huffington Post, the National Union of Students (NUS) has estimated that 20 per cent of women working in lap dancing clubs are students. And a study by the Universities of Kingston and Leeds found that as many as
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2013
The Independent becomes the first national paper to pledge to cover as much women’s sport as men’s. Over the last year, hundreds of column inches have recorded how the London Olympics showed sport at its best: welcoming, uplifting, and above all inclusive. The performances by female athletes made a