Women’s equality Articles

Without cues, without exposure, the questions about the women who changed Britain never get asked, argues Jess Phillips The world is currently caught up in a debate about statues. The shadow of the killing in Charlottesville by far-right protesters could leave most...

All children should learn about the hidden story of the Matchgirls' strike, argues Lyn Brown MP The received wisdom is that the heroic London dockers of 1889 led the way towards social justice, greater equality and spurred the foundation of the Labour movement. In...

Bex Bailey finds encouragement from Jess Phillips’ feminist volume ‘You will never be popular’, starts Jess Phillips – words spoken to her by Harriet Harman when she first began speaking out for women in parliament. Women who speak out tend to receive a barrage of...

Emily Brothers, former Labour parliamentary candidate for Sutton and Cheam, writes that Labour needs 'trans respect not transphobia'. It is a shame that she makes this call using language that is, at best, dismissive of the feminist movement and at worst taps into...