Language is never neutral—but we have to try

We can't escape the unnecessary gendering of products—but we can subvert it

We've taken to the streets in our millions to protest sexual violence–what more do you want?

A politician with naked ambition could hold the balance of power

It's not just which stories the media covers-the way it covers them matters just as much

We've made progress, but more could still be done

One of Egypt's leading human rights lawyers explains why her country's attitude to women is worsening

The Hillary Doctrine: Sex and American Foreign Policy by Valerie M Hudson and Patricia Leidl (Columbia University Press, £19.95) “Women’s rights are human rights”: Hillary Clinton’s...

by Jonathan Sacks (Hodder & Stoughton, £20) Throughout history religion and violence have often gone hand-in-hand. Thus the age-old question of whether religion is the cause of violence, or a...

Pro-life activists in the United States are successfully chipping away at a woman’s freedom to have an abortion