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  • Happy group of young women drinking beer at a pub.

    Some women are born to enjoy life as solitary bees

    Letters: Readers respond to Tara Judah’s article about her difficulty in forming female friendships, and her happiness in her own company
  • A woman standing in front of the mirror after having a masectomy

    I’m about to have a mastectomy and need some skincare advice

  • Gloria Steinem and Dorothy Pitman Hughes raise their fists in a Black Panther pose in a photograph from 1971

    Protesters, pop stars and pioneers: 38 images that changed the way we see women (for better and for worse)

  • ‘A liberated rack isn’t ashamed, it does what it wants to do’ … Sarah Thornton at home in California.

    ‘Breasts are a serious political problem’: one woman’s quest to reclaim her chest

  • Doreen Baingana.

    I?feel the strongest I’ve ever been. Menopause hasn’t slowed me down

  • I was at my desk thinking ‘what is my job?’ … the fog of work.

    ‘I felt like I was losing my mind’: how to keep your career on track during menopause

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News

  • Patrick Grant, host of the BBC show The Great British Sewing Bee, in a blue suit and tie

    ‘Is this what people wear now?’ Sewing Bee host criticises M&S jumpers and socks

  • ‘Even executives have dreams’ … Meryl Streep at the Cannes film festival.

    Meryl Streep: it’s ‘hardest thing’ for men to see themselves in female characters

  • Portrait photograph of Shirley Conran

    Shirley Conran, campaigner and ‘queen of the bonkbuster’, dies aged 91

  • Saudi Arabia women’s rights activist Manahel al-Otaibi has been sentenced to 11 years for ‘terrorist offences’.

    Saudi Arabia activist sentenced to 11 years in prison for ‘support’ of women’s rights

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Talking points

  • Barbara Ellen

    Demanding a haircut without talking is just rude ? how important do you think you are?

    Barbara Ellen
  • Tara Judah

    I?stopped chasing the Hollywood vision of female friendship ? and embraced the person I am

    Tara Judah
    • Eva Wiseman

      Compliments ? why can’t we just accept them?

      Eva Wiseman
    • Rachel Cooke

      Shirley Conran’s legacy is not only the filthy bits, but sisterhood too

      Rachel Cooke
    • Emma Beddington

      I?love Vogue’s idea of ‘British girl energy’. But what does it involve? M&S knickers? Weaponised politeness?

      Emma Beddington
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Video

  • Old?Lesbians: reclaiming old age and queerness through storytelling

  • The TV personality and a patron of the campaign group Menopause Mandate voiced her displeasure at the behaviour of government equalities ministers, whom she accused of ignoring the needs of menopausal women

    3:04

    Carol Vorderman 'absolutely disgusted' by ministers' attitude to menopause ? video

    The TV personality and a patron of the campaign group Menopause Mandate voiced her displeasure at the behaviour of government equalities ministers, whom she accused of ignoring the needs of menopausal women
  • The Taliban said they wanted peaceful relations with other countries and would respect the rights of women 'within the limits of Islam', as they held their first press conference since seizing Kabul. During their rule between 1996 and 2001, the Taliban implemented their own strict interpretation of sharia law, preventing women from working and girls from going to school.Taliban seek no ‘revenge’ and all Afghans will be ‘forgiven’

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

    The Taliban said they wanted peaceful relations with other countries and would respect the rights of women 'within the limits of Islam', as they held their first press conference since seizing Kabul. During their rule between 1996 and 2001, the Taliban implemented their own strict interpretation of sharia law, preventing women from working and girls from going to school.

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Women in politics

  • Birthday card for a man with a silhouette of a footballer on the front and the words "Happy Birthday"

    The?card that’s a sign of eternal friendship

  • Women sewing machinists from the Ford Motor Company plant in Dagenham taking strike action in June 1968.

    How?can women get equality? Strike!

    Sally Howard
  • Tulip Siddiq is the Labour MP for Hampstead & Kilburn. She recently postponed her caesarian section to vote on the Brexit deal - has since given birth to Raphael.

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

  • Lady Gaga, Michelle Obama, Rihanna, Adele and Angela Merkel

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

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