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Women

  • I don’t want my friend to stay with me but saying no feels mean. What can I do?

    What you should do depends on what your reason is, writes advice columnist Eleanor Gordon-Smith. Not feeling like it might not be a good enough excuse

  • Weekend podcast: multi-platinum singer Kesha, Marina Hyde on the Post Office scandal, and coronations gone awry

     

  • My husband won’t lift a finger to help me. Should I stay or go?

  • If Robbie Williams has given up on sex in marriage, what hope do any of us have?

  • ‘I can’t just decide to not fancy Cate Blanchett’: what does it mean to be sexually fluid?

  • ‘It was hard to keep track of who was at which stage’: what I learned from a threesome

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News

  • Simple measures could save 1 million babies a year, doctors plead

    • TikTok cashing in on sale of counterfeit cosmetics and prescription skin creams

    • Gal-Dem, magazine for women and non-binary people of colour, to fold

    • Stella prize 2023 shortlist: small publishers dominate Australian literary award

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Talking points

  • Emma Beddington

    Do women’s trousers have to be ugly or ill-fitting?

    Emma Beddington
  • Arwa Mahdawi

    When De Niro is having a child at 79, it’s time to cut older mothers some slack

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    • Arwa Mahdawi

      Quirky, kooky, a joke … but why is Marianne Williamson so popular with the young?

      Arwa Mahdawi

    • Ghosted is not romantic – it’s a walking red flag

      Jess Bacon
    • Arwa Mahdawi

      Clinging to power does not make Dianne Feinstein a feminist hero

      Arwa Mahdawi
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Video

  • Women's rights will be respected 'within the limits of Islam', say Taliban – video

     

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  • Pressure to procreate: inside Hungary’s baby drive – video

     

  • Being childfree: five women on why they chose not to have kids – video

     

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Women in politics

  • The card that’s a sign of eternal friendship

  • How can women get equality? Strike!

    Sally Howard

  • Tulip Siddiq: ‘I needed a caesarean – instead I was at parliament’

  • In praise of loud women – the joy and power of being noisy and female

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