Articles by Jessica Abrahams
Jessica Abrahams / November 17, 2014
Any ruling that accepted that this mother had committed a crime would be taking us into dangerous territory
Jessica Abrahams / November 13, 2014
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...
Jessica Abrahams / October 16, 2014
Companies should be investing in equalising the workplace, not freezing people's eggs
Jessica Abrahams / July 18, 2014
“People in Afghanistan don't see widows as human beings who have rights anymore”
Jessica Abrahams / June 26, 2014
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...
Jessica Abrahams / June 23, 2014
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
Jessica Abrahams / May 28, 2014
There has been a lot of talk about the low voter turnout at last week's EU and local elections. With a showing of 36 per cent, according to EU figures—significantly lower than the European average...
Yesterday, the European Court of Human Rights ruled against the seven-year jail term given to an opposition politician—Ilgar Mammadov—in Azerbaijan, ostensibly on public disorder charges,...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, has dinner with US Secretary of State John Kerry in Jerusalem
Since the Israel-Palestine peace talks finally collapsed, the two sides have been...