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The dark subtext to the headlines calling Priyanka Chopra a “scam artist”
The way some publications are talking about the Bollywood star’s wedding to Nick Jonas suggests something more sinister at play.
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- Hannah-Rose Yee
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Opinion
“India has scrapped its tampon tax. Why are we still paying it in the UK?”
The world’s ‘most dangerous country for women’ is ending taxes on sanitary products – but in the supposedly enlightened UK, we’re still being forced to pay up.
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- Moya Crockett
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Visible Women
Women’s Daily Dispatch: The news you need to know on 16/5/18
Hindu priestesses, lesbian witches, breast cancer beer and more
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- Moya Crockett
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Visible Women
Women’s Daily Dispatch: The news you need to know on 18/4/18
Hunger strikes against India’s rape laws, protests against plastic surgery in South Korea, and more
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- Moya Crockett
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- Moya Crockett
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Women’s Daily Dispatch: The news you need to know on 11/4/18
The world’s most admired women are revealed, Tanzanian girls get vaccinated against cervical cancer, and more
Visible Women
Women’s Daily Dispatch: The news you need to know on 23/2/18
Journalists remember trailblazing war reporter Marie Colvin, FGM is banned in Somaliland, and more
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- Stylist Team
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Visible Women
Women’s Daily Dispatch: the news you need to know on 5/2/18
Scottish women grapple with period poverty, rare suffragette posters are unveiled, and more
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- Moya Crockett
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Visible Women
Women’s Daily Dispatch: The news you need to know on 30/1/2018
BBC Women reject findings of pay gap report, female jockeys are proven to be just as good as men, and more.
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- Moya Crockett
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Life
Uber forced to apologise for sexist ‘Wife Appreciation Day’ message
“Thank you, Uber, for defining gender roles.”
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- Moya Crockett
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Life
Why India banning instant divorce is a major victory for women
India’s Supreme Court has ruled against triple talaq, which allowed Muslim men to instantly divorce their wives.
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- Moya Crockett
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Life
The defiant reason women in India are posting selfies after midnight
A male politician's attempt at victim blaming has backfired spectacularly.
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- Sarah Biddlecombe
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- Moya Crockett
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This government is telling pregnant women to stop thinking about sex
Women are being advised to shun "impure thoughts" and look at pictures of beautiful babies instead
Books
Who is Arundhati Roy? The controversial author with an army of fans
The bestselling author’s much-anticipated second novel is out now.
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- Moya Crockett
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People
Meet the 106-year-old taking YouTube by storm with her viral videos
Is this the world's oldest YouTube star?
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- Sarah Biddlecombe
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Life
Brides in India given paddles to beat abusive husbands away
Brides in India given paddles to beat abusive husbands away
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- Harriet Hall
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People
This 101-year-old athlete can’t stop winning gold medals (and hearts)
Man Kaur took home a clutch of gold medals at the World Masters Games
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- Stylist Team
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Life
How teens in India are fighting against the stigma surrounding periods
“I love breaking the taboos”
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- Sarah Biddlecombe
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Life
Young women in India are writing beautiful period-inspired poetry
Bust that stigma.
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- Moya Crockett
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- Moya Crockett
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Why India’s latest comic book heroine is a rape survivor
In Priya's Mirror, the resilient heroine teams up with acid attack survivors to defeat gender-based violence.
People
Meet the sword-fighting granny teaching girls the art of self-defence
73-year-old Meenakshi Amma practices the ancient martial art of kalaripayattu
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- Moya Crockett
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