Rachel Reeves wants to end the UK’s gender pay gap for good – here’s how she could do it
Shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves has declared she wants to end the gender pay gap once and for all. I...
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What Labour’s election means for women: the good and the bad
It’s a good day for women’s representation in politics. The proportion of women MPs has reached a re...
Increasing numbers of sexual offences on public transport recorded – but many experiences are still normalised and go unreported
The British Transport Police’s 2024 annual report shows that there has been a 10% rise in recorded s...
Shoplifting is now at record levels. Here’s how it went from a crime punishable by death to police ‘turning a blind eye’
Wherever you are on the political spectrum, shoplifting has come to symbolise today’s “broken Britai...
There are 13 million women ‘missing’ in Gulf states – here’s why it is holding their economies back
When you think of modern, oil-rich Gulf states like Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates...
Women in India face daily threat of sexual violence – more needs to be done to break the cycle
Twelve years ago, in 2012, people around the world read with horror as details emerged of how a 22-y...