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The good news: what is learned can be unlearned. The magazine Marie Claire recently challenged advertising agencies to create an advertisement that inspired women to love their bodies. The idea came after a study that found that the average woman only learned to like her body when she was 45, Marie Claire Australia then set leading ad agencies... The good news: what is learned can be unlearned. The magazine Marie Claire recently challenged advertising agencies to create an advertisement that inspired women to love their bodies. The idea came after a study that found that the average woman only learned to like her body when she was 45, Marie Claire Australia then set leading ad agencies Airborne, DDB Group, M&C Saatchi23
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Does gender discrimination begin in the womb in the UK too? A study by the Independent newspaper has sparked debate over female foeticide in the UK – the practice of aborting a baby because it is a girl. The investigation claims to have uncovered evidence that sex-selective abortions22
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With less than one week to go Charlie’s Big Challenge is fast becoming a reality… From 26 January to 1 February television presenter Charlie Webster will be running 250 miles and visiting 40 football clubs to raise awareness of Women’s Aid and encourage football clubs21
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Is it easier to forgive and meet a rapist who was a child when he committed the offence? Katja Rosenberg, 40 recently met her attack through the restorative justice process and felt she was able to offer him hope. Could you? He was jailed for 14 years after admitting the rape of Rosenberg as20
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Welcome to this week’s news of British women in sport from around the world. Cricket: England’s women built on last week’s test victory with a convincing win in their first ODIon 19 January. They are now one win away from retaining the Ashes. Australia batted first and17
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As Trouble and Strife launches its digital archive, Rosie Fox considers the benefits of printed magazines. The feminist journal Trouble and Strife (T&S) is a quirky, visual, yet delightful maze of a journal. Launched in 1983, T&S acknowledged its radical feminist outlook in the name16
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New campaign after polling showed how prevalent homophobic behavior still is. Stonewall has launched a national campaign to tackle the still endemic levels of homophobia in Britain’s workplaces. The new campaign’s posters feature two people and a slogan saying either: ‘One15
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Today’s back page features an awful ad from UK insurance company Vine Cover. According to their website Vine specialise in ‘convicted driver car insurance’ as well as misogyny.... Today’s back page features an awful ad from UK insurance company Vine Cover15
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And last year’s coverage of Female Genital Mutilation may well save lives. The UK government’s inquiry into Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), launched last month, proved a fitting end to 2013, a year that saw the issue propelled to the national spotlight. The UK’s Home14
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Women are changing the sport of climbing, setting new records and standards with nearly every big climb they complete, A relatively young yet very experienced group of female climbers in the UK are leading the way in changing the make-up of the sport of climbing. Many pin the increase in13
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Here are some woman-centric events for your diary going on around the UK this week. Across the UK: 19-25 January: Sundance Rising viewing parties. On 19 January, the official One Billion Rising 2013 documentary short will premiere at Sundance, the preeminent film festival founded by One20
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As 2013 draws to a close, WVoN takes a flying look back over the stories featured on the site this past year. We kicked off the year with women’s cricket, and my goodness reader did the UK win it. ‘Everyday Sexism’ too emerged as a winner, with 50,000 signatories&rsquo
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‘Games’ teach us that women must be thin to be beautiful. Two mobile phone apps which encouraged children as young as nine to ‘operate’ on a cartoon ‘Barbie’ with scalpels and syringes have now been removed from the iTunes and Google Play stores. The apps21
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The shocking truth about ‘Benefits Britain’ is … that people receiving benefits are people like us. Too often, people who have lost their jobs, have a disability or become ill, or who are in low paid work, find that when politicians talk about benefits, they talk about20
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Lena Dunham’s decision to become Vogue’s cover girl is both extraordinary and worrying. By Victoria Sadler. So it’s official. Lena Dunham is the cover girl for the February issue of American Vogue. But much as I love the woman, I really wish she’d turned the offer20
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Social justice as the route to health. If your January has been anything like mine, then no doubt you’ve been surrounded by the standard New Year’s deluge of gym leaflets through the door, diet promotions and articles in glossy mags, and of colleagues and17
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A survey has suggested that more than half of women have been discriminated against at work. The campaign group Opportunity Now, which was founded in 1991 to improve working conditions for women, launched Project 28–40 to investigate women’s experience in the workplace16
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After 325 years of male leadership, a female head of Lloyd’s of London. Inga Beale is a 30-year veteran of the insurance industry, and she takes leadership of the world’s largest insurance market, Lloyd’s of London. Only 40 years after the first woman, Liliana Archibald
The police investigate the victim instead of her rapist. By Lisa Longstaff. The UK police do not take rape seriously. Women who have been saying this for years have been proved right time and again, as serial attackers Jimmy Savile, John Worboys, the Oxford and Rochdale rapists and many14
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Unlike France, the UK’s approach to prostitution reeks of cowardice and inertia. By Heather Harvey. On 4 December, the Lower House of the French Parliament adopted a bill under which paying for sex would become an offence. The legislation includes measures to support women exiting13
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A rallying call by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation’s chief executive, Julia Unwin. Julia Unwin’s most recent book, ‘Why fight poverty?’ argues for the urgent need to tackle poverty in the UK. Unwin, chief executive of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) and the Joseph13
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‘It is high time that the criminal law was also amended’. A new bill has been proposed which would make domestic abuse an offence with a possible prison sentence of up to 14 years. Currently, domestic abuse is not specifically defined in criminal law and offenders are prosecuted20
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WVoN’s highlights of the year – and a preview of what’s to come. 2013 was the year in which women’s sport finally hit the headlines. Indeed it has been the hot topic of the sporting year for a variety of reasons. We have done our best to document the ups and downs and22
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Parliament debates bill to ensure aid spendingadvancesgender equality. The UK parliament is currently debating the Gender Equality and International Development Bill. If it becomes law the Bill will force the Secretary of State for International Development consider the role of women in all21
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Not the men…. the women’s side. So far so good for England in the women’s Ashes as they go six points ahead in the multi-format contest. There’s no doubt that cricket is a hot sporting topic at the moment. England’s men crumbled to a humiliating 5-0 defeat in20
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Here are some dates for your diary of woman-centric events going on around the UK this week. Across the UK: Until 25 January: Sundance Rising viewing parties. On 19 January, the official One Billion Rising 2013 documentary short premiered at Sundance, the preeminent film festival founded by17
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Lisa Simpson, permanent eight-year-old and the emotional heart of The Simpsons, is an excellent role model for young girls. Another of our regular cross-posts from Bitchflicks. By Lady T. The Simpsons, now in its record-breaking 25th season, is one of the most influential comedies of our17
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The back page of yesterday’s Daily Star featured an awful advert from UK insurance company Vine Cover. ‘We understand that mistakes happen…!’ says the ad. The ‘mistake’ in question – a woman – is pictured seated at the foot of a man’s16
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Donna Navarro reviews Lady in Red: the original stage play. It has been hailed by audiences across the UK as the best play about domestic abuse ever written. ‘In the darkness a small, grey table is warmed by a blue light. On it, a miniature Christmas tree with baubles and the lights15
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Help scrap the Benefit Cap which traps women and children in violent relationships. The campaign group Women Against Rape is asking organisations and individuals to support women and children impoverished by the Benefit Cap after escaping violent relationships by signing a petition asking14
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Do newspaper editors not know the difference? A recent letter to The Sun’s editor from the No More Page 3 team has drawn attention to a couple of issues that has been needing addressing again for some time: Dear David Dinsmore, We applaud you for your current campaign highlighting13
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Build up a Twitter storm against misinformation of Reality TV show ‘Benefits Street’. Last Monday, 6 January the first episode of a new ‘Reality TV’ show was broadcast in the UK, called ‘Benefits Street’. This is the latest in a long line of TV shows which20
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…but here is a list of blogs to keep you occupied. If you have any to add, let us know! Thank you for folioing us and we wish you all a peaceful time. Another Angry Woman Bidisha BitchFlicks The Courage to be Me Elegant
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Still here, still fighting the objectification of women. Lose the Lads’ Mags is a campaign calling on high-street shops to stop selling sexist, pornographic lads’ mags like Nuts and Zoo. Why? Because lads’ mags are harmful. Magazines like Nuts and Zoo portray women