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    • Sunday, 5 March, 2023
      Spain
      Spain plans to introduce cabinet gender equality law

      Prime minister’s measures will make the country one of the first in Europe to have a legally binding quota

    • Sunday, 5 March, 2023
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      British public U-turn on attitudes to immigration

      Other charts of the week: Antarctic sea ice, gender inequality among decision makers, economy concern

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      How row over trans rights sparked a crisis for Nicola Sturgeon’s leadership

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      A woman’s place is in the home? Why Ireland will vote on outdated law

      Dublin seeks to modify constitutional article stipulating that domestic chores are a woman’s ‘life and duties’

    • Thursday, 19 January, 2023
      UK politics & policy
      Scotland calls on London to remove block on transgender bill

      Edinburgh minister warns that legal fight will delay implementation, causing further harm to trans people

    • Monday, 16 January, 2023
      UK politics & policy
      Sunak in constitutional clash with Sturgeon over gender reform bill

      UK government for first time moves to block legislation passed by Scottish parliament

    • Monday, 16 January, 2023
      Inside Politics
      Constitutional showdown looms over Scotland’s transgender bill

      Holyrood law to ease the process of changing legal gender need not conflict with workings of UK-wide equalities law

    • Thursday, 12 January, 2023
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      Former LGBT+ adviser warns Sunak against blocking Scottish gender bill

      Iain Anderson says move being considered by UK prime minister would hit country’s global reputation

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      Taliban’s move to block women aid workers disrupts and divides NGOs

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      Carrier’s policy change comes as city-state is set to introduce anti-discrimination legislation

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      Why Italy’s first woman premier wants to be called ‘Il Presidente’

      Giorgia Meloni’s request to be known by the masculine article only reinforces the notion that the role is inherently male

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      Call Jane — Elizabeth Banks stars in 1960s abortion activism drama

      Committed performances lift the timely story of a Chicago housewife helped by a pro-choice collective

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    • Sunday, 23 October, 2022
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      Only one female sits on the politburo despite women making up 30% of party membership

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      A letter signed by 500 leaders from around the world is calling for a 50-50 split of men and women in the COP27 leadership team

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      The male beauty rebellion in China

      Foreign groups are losing ground against nimble local upstarts in the $10bn market

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      How to reboot men for the age of gender equality

      At the top and the bottom of society, new definitions of masculinity can help all to thrive

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      ReviewTelevision
      Minx — when a porn publisher and a feminist collaborate

      A sharp, comic HBO drama about a duo on a mission to make an intellectual, soft-porn publication in 1970s LA

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      Sarah O'Connor
      It’s not always the perpetrator who pays for sexual harassment at work

      New academic research shows that senior men tend to suffer fewer career consequences than women

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