Women’s Liberation Follow

The recent brutal series of murders of women in Ipswich has brought the question of prostitution and violent crime to the foreground.

How the media uses technology to create unrealistic images of women

Over 30 years since the Equal Pay Act outlawed discrimination against women in the workplace, the pay gap between men and women is still staggering. Women in full-time jobs pocket only 78 pence for every pound men earn.

There are fears that a private members bill could be introduced in parliament to curb abortion rights.

I wrote last week about the ideology that surrounds the nuclear family.

One hundred years ago this week, Sylvia Pankhurst found herself in prison for the first time. The crime of the 24 year old? Campaigning for votes for women.

I wrote last week that the formation of the family was central to understanding the origins of women’s oppression. This week I will look at how the role of the family changed with the birth of capitalism.

Women’s oppression is the most deeply entrenched oppression. It is seen as biological, psychological, universal and age-old.

Over 150 women attended a dayschool on Marxism and Women’s Liberation organised by the Socialist Workers Party on Saturday 28 October.

To blame unhealthy children on women is ignoring what the market has done to childcare and people‘s lives in the last two decades.

'Raunch culture isn't about opening our minds to the possibilities of sexuality. It's about reiterating one particular shorthand for sexiness'

Playwright Henrik Ibsen was more than a pioneer of modern theatre: he carried a torch for all those who fight for women's liberation.