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As violence against women and girls spirals, we uncover the shocking reality of misogyny and harassment in schools. Investigations Editor David Cohen reports
The contributions of several gifted female directors have shaped the history of cinema, with some of the most influential figures paving the way for up-and-coming female directors.
Novels that take on the marginalized or vilified women in mythology are flooding bookstores and reigniting questions about who gets to tell these stories, and how.
Operation Save America members promote legislation that would pave the way for women to be prosecuted and potentially locked up for ending a pregnancy.
I am a writer driven by rape. My first foray into fiction featured a girl charged with murder for killing her rapist in self-defense. It was about silence and the many ways society revictimizes people…
Book excerpt: Extracted from The Women Who Wouldn’t Wheesht: Voices from the Front-Line of Scotland’s Battle for Women’s Rights edited by Susan Dalgety and Lucy Hunter Blackburn (Constable £22)
Five years ago, investigative journalist Nikole Hannah Jones, in collaboration with other journalists and historians, published a longform piece in the New York Times Magazine, called The 1619 Project. The project, first published in August 2019, marked the 400th anniversary of the beginning of American slavery, and it aims to put race, the consequences of slavery, and the contributions of black Americans at the center of our national narrative. In the years since, Donald Trump’s GOP has launched a sweeping effort against the ideas at the core of the 1619 project, and other initiatives to address issues of race and identity.
Listen to Special investigation: Misogyny & harassment in schools from The Standard. A special investigation from The Standard has uncovered the horrifying reality of misogyny and how it’s impacting women and girls.Teenage girls, aged between 13-15, say they are victims of sexual harassment every day - online, in the street, and even in the classroom. David Cohen, our investigations Editor and Campaigns Editor, went into some London schools to find out what exactly is happening, and how we can make our women and girls feel safe.For all the latest news head to www.standard.co.uk or pick up a newspaper.Follow us on X or on Threads.
Claudia Sheinbaum was elected Mexico's first woman president by a landslide Sunday, making history in a country plagued by rampant criminal and gender-based violence. Crowds of flag-waving supporters sang and danced to mariachi music in Mexico City.
Sojourner Truth Legacy Plaza, featuring a life-sized statue of Black abolitionist and women's rights activist Sojourner Truth, opened Wednesday at 37 N. High St. in Akron.
Best known for her 70s Dinner Table homage to heroic women, the American artist moves centre stage at last in a show of variously blazing, bold, crude, generous work inspired by female subjugation and power
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