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Women from low-income backgrounds (and black and Asian mothers) suffer the highest rate of infant mortality – yet society continues to stigmatise poorer parentsIn 2016, the health of mothers and babies shouldn't depend on where they live
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Confusion on breasts goes beyond BritainLetters: Breastfeeding | Taking the blame | BBC recipes | Eurovision -
Gains in women’s rights haven't made women happier. Why is that?Since the 70s, women in the US and Europe have reported feeling less satisfied with their lives -
The connected vagina: monitor how full your tampon is – with a new appmy.Flow promises to prevent ‘a girl’s worst nightmare of having blood leak through her new white pants’ – but is this really the innovation we need?
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Has celebrity feminism failed?It has become fashionable to identify as a feminist in Hollywood, but a social and political force needs substance, not just award-ceremony speeches, to refocus the spotlight
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The Ghostbusters trashing is just another internet tantrum against changeOrganised troll-reviewing of the remake’s trailer is inevitable, but it won’t stop the thrilling transformation in pop culture that is finally taking place
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The club’s members have voted against admitting women. Even after they perform the inevitable U-turn, I won’t play where I’m thought of as second classI love golf, Muirfield, but I don’t want to join your snotty club
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Why do women still die in childbirth, asks Emily Watson – videoImagine having a baby with no midwives, doctors or medicines nearby. Each year, more than 300,000 women die after complications in pregnancy and childbirth
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Woman made to wear heels to work: ‘This is a women’s rights issue’ – videoA woman who was sent home from work unpaid on her first day due to her refusal to wear heels says she will push for a petition she started to be debated in parliament
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Mark Latham attacks Van Badham on Weekend Sunrise – videoIn a fiery Weekend Sunrise segment on men and feminism, the former Labor party leader Mark Latham accuses Guardian columnist Van Badham of being a ‘self-declared anarchist ... representing perhaps 0.001% of thought in Australia’.
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‘Cheer up, love’ – why is Harriet Tubman being told to smile 100 years after her death?The abolitionist has received criticism this week for her stern expression on a new $20 bill. But from Margaret Thatcher to Victoria Wood, women are marginalised and subject to sexism even when they are no longer alive
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Anne-Marie Slaughter: ‘Care is not a woman’s job any more than breadwinning is a man’s’The feminist politics professor, 57, on her Belgian grandparents, seeing beauty in a puddle, and her sons wanting to be artists
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The year in sexism: how did women fare in 2015?Over the past 12 months, women ‘ruined Fifa’ and were told that not doing enough housework was making them fat. From Nigel Farage making a boob of himself to the supposed death of feminism, here’s a look at 2015’s most misogynist moments
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MP Jess Phillips: ‘You have to be a remarkable woman to get to the top … average men get there all the time’She’s unfazed by threats from the men’s-rights lobby, unafraid to speak her mind about Corbyn’s shadow cabinet and will ‘have a word’ with Seumas Milne about his friendship with George Galloway. We meet the Labour MP
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Enforcing high heels in the office is the height of workplace sexismNicola Thorp’s petition over high heels at work shows that we still believe for a woman to look professional she must also be attractive
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Five things companies can do to boost employee happinessGet your chequebooks out, recognise the importance of your part-time staff and stop thinking that a pumped up job title is the answer
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Louisiana Republican's stripper joke an unamusing reality in state politics