Jenni Russell Illustration by Belle Mellor A few years ago an academic I know had to suspend her career and go underground for a year. She was fleeing a stalker – an ex-boyfriend who had spent three years following, messaging and threatening her. She would wake up to dozens of texts and emails telling...
Louise Mensch Yvette Cooper, who has led Labour’s pitch to women, with Ed Miliband at the party’s 2011 conference. Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PA The latest ICM poll is good news for the blues. David Cameron enjoys a five-point lead over Labour at a time when it should be miles ahead, opposing a coalition government that...
Allegra Stratton, political correspondent The prime minister’s problem has several causes, including the fact that women are often public sector workers and therefore affected by cuts. Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PA During the summer the prime minister’s advisers crunched numbers that showed the Conservatives had a problem with female voters, and by September a document detailing...
Women protest against David Cameron and government spending cuts. Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images Are government spending cuts having a disproportionate impact on women? The question has so rattled David Cameron that he is to appoint a senior female adviser to assess the impact of government policy on women. Yet while Westminster ponders women on...
