In the year of #MeToo and Time’s Up, 8 March keeps the spotlight on women calling for progress Report: IWD marked by protests and celebrations In pictures: the day around the world Rebecca So...
The Global Women’s Strike has evolved into a worldwide protest with myriad demands On the first day of the UN Decade for Women in 1975, the women of Iceland took the day off to demonstrate th...
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/mar/08/iceland-global-womens-strike-protest
Eleanor Rathbone’s idea that mothers should be paid for the work of bearing and raising children was radical in its time – and inspires to this day Universal family allowance, now known as c...
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/aug/06/child-benefit-70-years-eleanor-rathbone
After independence President Julius Nyerere applied welfare state principles to his own country and never lost sight of African traditions As we celebrate the 53rd anniversary of Tanzania’s in...
Recent debate has focused on whether infighting distracts from fighting inequality. But haven't feminists always argued about priorities? Should we tolerate debate within feminism's ranks? Undeb...
Prostitutes need better allies than French men focused on their own sexual freedoms – but too often, feminists only make their lives harder The 343 French intellectual men who signed a statem...
The welfare state is the latest victim of the market's corruption of all it touches. Fighting like hell is the only option It's almost unbearable to wake up to a world in which the welfare state...
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/may/01/welfare-wages-women-fight-market
In Venezuela, Hugo Chávez's legacy on poverty is likely to get his chosen successor elected. We can't so easily vote out Margaret Thatcher's war on welfare Another head of government died recen...
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/apr/10/thatcherism-infected-politics
Fifty years ago my husband's book on cricket inspired our anti-discrimination struggles – and continues to do so to this day Fifty years ago, after a March as cold as the one just gone, my hu...
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/apr/02/beyond-a-boundary-broke-cricket-barriers
And he wasn't the only one. Presidents of Tanzania and Haiti have both benefited from making women central to progress The funeral of President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela took place on Internati...
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/mar/08/hugo-chavez-revolution-depended-on-women
Elsewhere in Europe, there is a better understanding of the importance of supporting women's own provision of childcare It is extraordinary that the government is only now turning its attention ...
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/jan/30/women-childcare-liz-truss
Star players going to male teams could validate women's cricket, but may also impoverish our popular and competitive game For a woman to break into cricket is to confront a rigid establishment w...
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/jan/15/sarah-taylor-mens-cricket
Hilary Rosen's 'stay at home' mum jibe has led to recognition that all mothers are entitled to welfare for their work - a worthy US import You can't predict when a breakthrough will come your wa...
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/cifamerica/2012/apr/25/womens-work-hilary-rosen
Feminism should be as exciting as rock'n'roll, says Moran. Four writers share their views on her book, How to Be a Woman Being a feminist this summer is pretty exciting. It's like we've all been...
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/jun/20/caitlin-moran-how-to-be-a-woman
Women of all ages, colours and backgrounds came together at the SlutWalk in London – this was the new women's movement There was a great feeling that the London SlutWalk represented all kinds...
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/jun/19/slutwalk-new-womens-movement
If adopted, this proposal would undermine equity and democracy in the name of mothers, whom the right loves to sanctify Of all the measures that mothers might consider a priority, additional vot...
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/apr/18/hungary-childrens-vote-mothers-democracy
We don't know how Haiti will react to an election that excluded his party, but the former president will take his cue from the people The return of former president Jean-Bertrand Aristide and hi...
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/mar/21/aristide-return-haiti-election
To undermine for good the sexual divison of labour, women and men must begin with children A century ago International Women's Day was associated with peace, and women's and girls' sweated labo...
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/mar/08/international-womens-day-sexual-division
Families with children will bear the brunt of privatisation and cuts – leaving carers with more unwaged work than ever The welfare state was a legacy of the second world war. After the misery ...
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2010/oct/21/spending-review-taxandspending