Blog posts by Grace Fletcher-Hackwood: 2010
Expectant mothers and street-lighting: making Haiti safe for women
by Grace Fletcher-Hackwood // 31 January 2010, 16:13
As the recovery in Haiti continues - and the utterly misguided attempts to help begin (or at least you have to hope that's what that was...) - the aftermath of the disaster adds a new dimension to already pressing issues...
Media bias, courtroom misogyny and police incompetence: how rapists get away with it
by Grace Fletcher-Hackwood // 20 January 2010, 23:24
Trigger warning We Mixed Our Drinks blogged yesterday on the tabloids' fondness for reporting 'cry rape' stories, and observed: "when the media continues to publicise such cases yet ignore the majority of shocking and disgusting attacks against women...we end up...
Mobile call charges to benefit claim lines scrapped (...mostly)
by Grace Fletcher-Hackwood // 19 January 2010, 21:38
Sorry, another post about welfare benefits. I seem to have become The F-Word's DWP correspondent. Let me just explain why I'm excited about this... When I first moved to Manchester, I was unemployed, living in a single rented room in...
Get FGM on the agenda at Davos 2010
by Grace Fletcher-Hackwood // 14 January 2010, 17:47
Julia Lalla-Maharajh, communications adviser volunteer at Forward, is in the top five finalists of a global YouTube competition to win a place at the World Economic Forum in Davos later this month. if she wins, she will hold a debate...
Christelle Pardo: what the hell went wrong?
by Grace Fletcher-Hackwood // 10 January 2010, 19:50
The Guardian's Jenni Russell wrote this week about Christelle Pardo, a French woman who leapt to her death, holding her baby, in June last year. Christelle had been denied benefits because as a French national she apparently didn't meet the...
End financial discrimination against young people
by Grace Fletcher-Hackwood // 1 January 2010, 17:41
2009: the year of the Equality Bill. While readers probably have aspects of the Bill they don't like, I'm sure most see it as a step forward. However, one disappointment has been the Bill's exceptions for age discrimination. Specifically, the...
Founder of The F-Word, Catherine Redfern, has co-authored a new book with Kristin Aune. Find out more at the 
