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Labour Conference - Day Three And Leader's Speech

My message to abusers and rapists: The streets don't belong to you

Politics November 26, 2024 By Yvette Cooper

Introducing This Is Not Right: Metro's year-long violence against women campaign

UK November 27, 2024 By Deborah Arthurs

My friend shrieked when she saw my legs – I felt her shame

Beauty November 24, 2024 By Sharan Dhaliwal

Evelyn Miller tucks her hair behind her ear and tilts her head as she poses for the camera, wearing a floral strapless top

Men said I was 'different' - I didn't realise I had two vaginas

Health February 7, 2025 By Evelyn Miller

'Microfeminism' is TikTok's latest viral trend — petty, or taking power back?

Lifestyle December 5, 2024 By Alice Giddings

Symbols of male and female on piles of coins, gender pay equality concept

Women are now working for free for the rest of the year

Money 5 days ago By Jessica Hamilton

Woman arrested for stripping to underwear in 'hijab protest' has been released

World November 20, 2024 By Danny Rigg

The emergency line that could save your life but you've never heard of

The emergency line that could save your life but you've never heard of

UK November 15, 2024 By Sam Corbishley

Close up portrait of young girl tells a gossip secretly looking away and putting her hand to her mouth isolated on yellow background

12 women share things they never knew about men until they had a boyfriend

Sex November 11, 2024 By Alice Giddings

The radical 'femcel' movement urging women to give up men forever

Lifestyle January 20, 2025 By Jessica Lindsay

Why don't airlines stock sanitary products? Getty Images

Airlines offer perfume, headphones and blankets for free, so why not pads and tampons?

Travel December 12, 2024 By Jessica Hamilton

People giving there first names Erika, left, and Leeann react after an abortion rights amendment to the Missouri constitution passed, Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024, at a watch party in Kansas City, Mo. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

What do the US election results mean for abortion rights?

US November 6, 2024 By Sarah Hooper

Yashmin Harun Bem: I felt excluded playing netball, so I took matters into my own hands This Girl Can

My school's PE kit rules left Muslim pupils like me unable to take part

Lifestyle November 4, 2024 By Yashmin Harun

I slept with 101 men in one day - it's a shame people judge mebonnie blue and Lily Phillips

A 23-year-old had sex with 101 men in a day — feminist, or damaging to women?

Sex January 16, 2025 By Alice Giddings

I was ashamed of what I found in my knickers until I learned the truth

Health November 1, 2024 By Sharan Dhaliwal

Chancellor Rachel Reeves in front of buildings and with money

Rachel Reeves needs to tackle one major issue, according to women in finance

Lifestyle October 30, 2024 By Courtney Pochin

A group of Afghan women clad in burqas walk towards a market in Ghazni, 04 August 2007. Afghanistan's Taliban are holding out for a neutral venue for talks with South Korea over the fate of 21 hostages they are threatening to kill.The Al-Qaeda-backed militants, who are demanding that some of their men are freed from jail in exchange for the captives, have agreed to talks with the South Koreans, but are refusing to meet them in government-controlled territory.The South Korean aid workers, most of whom are female, are said to be ill after being held for more than two weeks in sweltering southern Afghanistan. AFP PHOTO/SHAH Marai (Photo credit should read SHAH MARAI/AFP via Getty Images)

Taliban bans women from hearing each other

World October 30, 2024 By Brooke Davies

Saoirse Ronan looking serious on the right and Paul Mescal smiling on the left – both appearing on The Graham Norton Show

Saoirse Ronan's truth bomb reveals men like Paul Mescal have lots to learn

TV October 28, 2024 By Sabrina Barr

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Thank you, Gisele Pélicot - I'll call you brave no matter what you say

World December 20, 2024 By Emily Bashforth

Women work in a low cost sanitary napkin factory in Shatkhira, Bangladesh on 24th October, 2021 (Photo by Mushfiqul Alam/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Girls so worried about hygiene they’re stopping their periods on purpose

World October 20, 2024 By Jen Mills

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