Despite being crucial to Sierra Leone’s agricultural sector, women lack access to land. The bora custom is making things worse.
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Swift positions herself in a long history of women accused of ‘behaving badly’ while revealing the importance of revisiting our understanding of the past based on shifting evidence.
Women are constantly battling stereotypes that seek to maintain the status quo of male dominance in political spaces.
Deifying the composer and his work only serves to reinforce America’s white patriarchy at the expense of countless others who were no less great.
In 1970, Sexual Politics explained why sexual relationships – and indeed sex itself – are political. ‘The world was sleeping,’ wrote Andrea Dworkin of this book. ‘And Kate Millett woke it up.’
As the country prepares to go to the polls on February 14, will the low representation of women in parliament improve? Given the systemic barriers in place, probably not.
Understanding how deepfakes can be used as a tool for misogyny is an important first step in considering the harms they will likely cause, including through school cyberbullying.
Inmates who are mothers tend to be accused of being bad parents.
Rural women in Nigeria circumvent patriarchy to make decisions on their healthcare.
The Barbie movie has caused a media storm, even before the photo of the pink-clad Canadian PM and his son circulated on social media. Much of the conversation has zoned in on men and masculinity.
A Spell of Good Things powerfully explores polygamy, patriarchy, political corruption and poverty.
Foot stomping songs and charismatic performances make the stage adaptation of the 1970s TV series a hit.
On the positive side, good progress has been made on gender equality and fewer people are dying of unnatural causes.
Deep-seated cultural practices – such as female genital mutilation and child marriage – prevent girls from making progress in school.
Male domination is not inevitable, omnipresent, natural or biological. In various societies, men and women arrange their lives differently - challenging monolithic notions of ‘the patriarchy’.
Director Steven Soderbergh believes he has presented a female perspective, but all he’s done is shoot men in the same dehumanising way that has historically fetishised women
A BBC Wales investigation reported claims of a ‘toxic culture’ of sexism and misogyny within Welsh rugby’s governing body.
Facebook and Instagram were recently told by their parent company, Meta, to overhaul their policy on nipple exposure. But the change may not be as radical as people hope. Here’s why.
Few Canadians know about the doctrine of coverture and how it stripped Indigenous women of their agency.
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