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Rayner my parade! The importance of specialist advice.
Jemma Brimblecombe
27 February 2018
IWD: ‘Male feminists’ – controversial, contradictory or comrades in the fight for gender equality?
When Piers Morgan recently asked the President of the United States whether he was a feminist, his admission that he was not a devout supporter of the women’s movement somehow made headlines around the world. When the same question was posed to Jacob Rees-Mogg he branded the very idea of a man being a feminist as ‘ridiculous’ and Nigel Farage admitted he did not even know what ‘feminism’ means.
26 February 2018
IWD: Safeguarding Sex Workers – Protecting the Vulnerable
Sex work. Prostitution. We all have an idea of what these terms mean. For some women (95% of sex workers are said to be women) entering sex work is a choice, a consensual transaction. Some enter for financial gain. Others are more vulnerable, exploited in their circumstances by virtue of drug addiction, homelessness or groomed by pimps. Whatever the reason for entering into sex work, workers are much more likely to be criminalised for their behaviour than sex buyers.
26 February 2018
IWD: Women without property
When I interned at a charity campaigning to end violence against women over ten years ago the statistics were that one in four women experiences domestic abuse during her lifetime and two women every week are killed by their current partner or ex-partner in England and Wales. Sadly those statistics remain the same today.
23 February 2018
IWD: Young women entering the profession – this is the most important thing you need to know
In mid-November I read an article by Caitlin Moran in the Saturday Times magazine. She is of course fabulous and pretty much right about everything but this really struck a chord. She wrote about why older women do not tell younger woman the most important thing they need to know when setting out in life. This is not what child birth is really like (although I can tell you it is very painful) but rather she said...
23 February 2018
IWD: The experience of women in custody
A woman has her period and is locked in a cell without access to sanitary protection or the use of a private toilet. She isn’t in Nepal or Uganda, she is in one of many police stations across England and Wales which were found by the ICVA in 2017 to be failing to meet these very basic needs of women and girls.