Suzanne Moore (The Second Sexism is just victim-envy, G2, 17 May) would have her readers believe that my new book “details how men, not women, are discriminated against”. I specifically noted that I do not deny that women are the victims of sexism. My argument is that men also are. Nor did I claim,...
Agnès Poirier François Hollande with his new cabinet. Photograph: Patrick Aventurier/Getty Images Nicolas Sarkozy promised a parity government in 2007, but failed to deliver. Five years later, newly elected president François Hollande has just done it. For the first time, France boasts as many women as men in its 34-member cabinet. It may have...
Suzanne Moore Simone de Beauvoir, author of The Second Sex, would be twisting in her chignon. Photograph: Hulton Archive/Getty Images Are men the new women? Are they having a harder time than silly moaning ladies? Has feminism gone too far? Has political correctness been put away for its own good? These are such familiar...
Britney Spears: professional scene stealer. Photograph: AP Bested by Britney US singer Demi Lovato (nope, we hadn’t either) must have been miffed to discover the other new American X Factor judge is world-famous pop star Britney Spears. Thunder promptly stolen. Payback time Sixty years ago the House of Commons agreed equal pay for women...
Audrey Gillan Visitors to the 2011 Kapow! convention in London. Photograph: Gavin Rodgers/Rex Features It’s a world where guys have superpowers and the girls are very often disempowered. But now two Glasgow-based women are attempting to shake up the often misogynistic comic book environment with the UK’s biggest comic convention, Kapow!, in London this weekend....
Randeep Ramesh, social affairs editor Students from William Morris 6th Form, Hammersmith. hand out ‘Save EMA’ biscuits outside parliament in a day of action against scrapping of the education maintenance allowance in January 2011. Photograph: Anthony Devlin/PA The Treasury failed to consider how crucial policies would affect women, disabled people and ethnic minorities before...
Yvonne Roberts Vidal Sassoon: ‘revolutionised his craft’. Photograph: Murdo Macleod Vidal Sassoon, who has died at the age of 84, spent decades at the literal and metaphorical cutting edge of hairdressing, having risen from abject poverty to conquer London, New York and Los Angeles. Four times married, he was a charmer, a philanthropist, a...
Ruth Spencer Mary McNamara of the Los Angeles Times says of Girls: ‘There is a cool cleverness to the show that is both attractive and off-putting’. Photograph: HBO Over the last few weeks, we’ve been debating the biggest issues on Girls with some of the savviest girls-turned-women around, including: Amanda Marcotte, Julieanne Smolinski, Lauren...
Lizz Winstead They also serve: a Catholic mass in St Patrick’s cathedral, New York. Photograph: Wally Santana/AP I came prepared with a list of my skills. I would be the best altar boy ever. So good, in fact, that he would only need one: just Father Hansen and me, on stage. Blowing everyone away....
Peter Walker Mothers in Yama, Niger, crowd with their children to be admitted to the MSF screening field centre for malnourished children. Photograph: Dan Chung for the Guardian Niger is the worst country on earth in which to be a mother, according to a report by Save the Children. The charity’s annual Mothers’ Index...
