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Women’s History Month profiles: Claudette Colvin
The name of Rosa Parks is known wherever the American civil rights struggles of the sixties is retold. But who has heard of Claudette Colvin? Nine months before Rosa Park, Claudette Colvin also refused to give up her seat to a white person on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama.
Poll shows widespread sexism; Mail says: “Women declare sexism dead”
The Daily Mail has used a report showing sexism is widespread in UK society to argue sexism is dead; the article is headed "sexism is dead, say most British women".
Women’s History Month Profiles: Margaret Bondfield
Margaret Bondfield (1873-53) was the first female member of cabinet, and among the first women MPs not come either from an aristocratic background or 'take over' her seat from her husband, being elected with the first generation of women Labour MPs.
Women’s History Month Profiles: Mary Wollstonecraft
Wollstonecraft's writing seriously shows that the personal is political, for she took the fact her family viewed her education as less important than her brother’s and made it her political raison d’être.
The coalition’s unfair pensions changes will hit women hardest
Yvette Cooper MP is the Shadow Home Secretary and Shadow Minister for Women and Equality From child care support to […]
Women’s History Month: What about her story?
Women's History Month aims to empower women by discovering and celebrating women's lives and achievements and providing positive role models and inspiration.