The Secret History of Wonder Woman by Jill Lepore (Scribe, £20) Read more of our books in brief “With the speed of Mercury and the strength of Hercules—she is known only as Wonder Woman,...

Cash still rules in the UK—but only just

Tzipi Livni, who voted against the bill, is interviewed at a press conference in 2009. Photo © Itzik Edri Next week, the Israeli parliament will vote on legislation that would define the country's...

Any ruling that accepted that this mother had committed a crime would be taking us into dangerous territory

Men Explain Things to Me and Other Essays by Rebecca Solnit (Granta, £12.99) “Mansplaining”: a tendency among some men to unnecessarily explain things to women, based on a mistaken assumption...

Companies should be investing in equalising the workplace, not freezing people's eggs

“People in Afghanistan don't see widows as human beings who have rights anymore”

Barbie. The feminist's nemesis, long-accused of playing a role in—or at least failing to combat—the hyper-sexualisation and prevalence of body image issues among young girls; a toy that...

It's the year 2000 and I'm sitting at a wooden lab desk in my Year 6 primary school science class, sun shining through the big glass windows, learning about the birds and the bees and all that...

Parties that have moved to the left economically but to the right socially have been the big winners