The sex industry is booming, the rape conviction rate is plummeting, women's bodies are picked over in the media, abortion rights are under serious threat and top business leaders say they don't want to employ women. It all adds up to one thing ... an all-out assault on feminism. But why?

This made me laugh... Well not all of it; just the bit about the radical response to wolf whistling. Of course it would be an Israeli...

I followed the link to Polly Toynbee's article though, and that was just not funny at all. I mean in the sense that what she's talking about - the "girlification" of female culture - is really a lot more serious ( Read more... )

[...] the news media gets working mothers' issues all wrong-talking about these issues as personal problems for individual women, rather than shared economic and public policy questions for a 21st century economy.

Last year, the Equalities Review, commissioned by the government, found that mothers face more discrimination in the workplace than any other group.

It is currently estimated that discrimination against women in the workplace - with the lost tax revenue and increased welfare benefits it causes - costs the UK between £15bn and £23bn each year, ( Read more... )