Estelle Hart Articles

Labour must tackle institutional sexism in the police

When more than 10,000 women and children are deemed to be at high risk of being murdered or seriously injured by their current or former partners, today’s report from Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary on how police forces deal with domestic violence makes for...

Name the problem

My to-read pile has always contained large reports on it, with line after line of increasingly dismal statistics, often peppered with heartbreaking testimonies from women survivors and more often than not stories of violence where the women involved are not alive to...

The party for women?

Labour must not get smug about its record —It was a striking image quickly spotted by Ed Miliband at prime minister’s questions last month, when the government, usually with a few women coalition ministers strategically placed in sight of the TV cameras, offered up an...

The further marginalisation of women

Among the acres of newsprint devoted to plans to charge foreigners to use the NHS one suggestion is especially troubling: a proposal to deny foreign women access to free abortions. This isn’t going to be about the rights and wrongs of charging for the NHS – although...

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