Letters: Women’s archive is as relevant today as the struggles it records
Thank you for raising awareness regarding the crisis facing the Women's Library (Women's archive hunts for a saviour, 1 May). Over 50 years ago the Guardian's Mary Stott was instrumental in founding our organisation – the National Women's Register
Belle de Jour v Julie Bindel
Brooke Magnanti has swapped her call girl blog for an academic study of the sex industry. I disagree with just about everything she has to sayI meet Brooke Magnanti at a hotel in London's King's Cross, close to the notorious street prostitution scene a...
AA Gill, drop the cheap jibes about Mary Beard – and learn something | Miriam O’Reilly
Three years ago I took a stand against ageism at the BBC. The tide is now turning against those who judge by appearancesThe Sunday Times TV critic AA Gill refers to his girlfriend as "The Blonde", nothing more. I have idly wondered in the past why he c...
AA Gill, drop the cheap jibes about Mary Beard – and learn something | Miriam O’Reilly
Three years ago I took a stand against ageism at the BBC. The tide is now turning against those who judge by appearancesThe Sunday Times TV critic AA Gill refers to his girlfriend as "The Blonde", nothing more. I have idly wondered in the past why he c...
AA Gill, drop the cheap jibes about Mary Beard – and learn something | Miriam O’Reilly
Three years ago I took a stand against ageism at the BBC. The tide is now turning against those who judge by appearancesThe Sunday Times TV critic AA Gill refers to his girlfriend as "The Blonde", nothing more. I have idly wondered in the past why he c...
Q&A with Naomi Wolf: the future of feminism | Naomi Wolf
Join our live webchat to talk about where the modern women's movement is headed (upcoming: 1pm EST; 5pm GMT)In her column this week, Naomi argued a historical analysis of why western feminism has atrophied, suggesting that a feminism based on an Enligh...
How we can connect with feminism’s global future | Naomi Wolf
In the west, feminism has stalled. But elsewhere, women have found in it a new model of Enlightenment rights and freedomsThe "so what?" feminism plateau is familiar to us in the west: 40 years after the second wave, the standstill is obvious. Western w...
Women writers’ neglect is a class issue
Middle-class writers such as Sylvia Townsend Warner have enough champions. What about Ethel Carnie Holdsworth?For about four decades now, rediscovering and promoting the work of women writers deemed to have been "abandoned" by readers has been a staple...
Institutional sexism of books world needs new girls’ network
Womens' entry to the present old boys' club is not the only solution to gender inequalityFor those of us who pay attention, the Vida count was Groundhog Day all over again: new year, same dismal statistics, same sober/inadvertently hilarious excuse-mak...
Gender bias in books world remains ‘systemic’
Study by Vida shows great majority of quality-press reviews are still by and about male writersIt was the year when VS Naipaul infamously declared no woman writer to be his equal, so perhaps it's not surprising that new research shows a huge skew towar...
Ker-pow! Women kick back against comic-book sexism
UK-made, female-driven anthology Bayou Arcana is causing a stir for more than just its haunting images and storylinesIt is one of the more eagerly awaited titles due to emerge from Britain's vibrant independent comic and graphic novel scene. But the "s...
The conversation: Why is there so much misogyny online?