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Mothers' issues are feminist issues, argues Ruth Moss

http://www.thefword.org.uk/features/2008/08/sisters_some_of 2008-08-19T21:43:07Z 2008-08-19T20:24:09Z Ruth Moss

How would you feel if you found out the people around you chat about putting you forward for How to Look Good Naked? Kelly Draper knows all too well

http://www.thefword.org.uk/features/2008/08/forget_what_not 2008-08-13T20:13:58Z 2008-08-12T20:03:09Z Kelly Draper http://adventuresandjapes.blogspot.com

Although women shoulder most of the housework burden, men also vacuum, wash up and do the laundry. Kristine Bergström wonders why TV advertising persists in pretending otherwise?

http://www.thefword.org.uk/features/2008/06/mamas_mop_and_b 2008-06-09T21:50:33Z 2008-06-09T21:09:00Z Kristine Bergström

The campaign to ban women from terminating pregnancies after 20 weeks is only the beginning, says Kit Roskelly

http://www.thefword.org.uk/features/2008/05/a_slicebyslice 2008-05-11T21:22:37Z 2008-05-11T20:20:56Z Kit Roskelly

Is it feminist to be able to fix your own plumbing? Where are all the female tradespeople? Rhona-Mairead Sweeting considers the place of feminism in the construction industry and manual trades

http://www.thefword.org.uk/features/2008/04/do_it_yourself 2008-04-06T18:24:11Z 2008-04-06T17:43:33Z Rhona-Mairead Sweeting http://www.wonderhorse.co.uk

What use are sex worker groups that give out condoms and showers, but can't help women who want to exit prostitution? Ekis reports from Barcelona on prostitution and the campaign for legalisation

http://www.thefword.org.uk/features/2008/03/how_to_get_an_a_1 2008-03-17T00:13:36Z 2008-03-16T23:07:42Z Ekis

A Home Office policy that should help protect transgender civil servants from discrimination? Great news. But, asks Emma Wood, why does it insist that women and men have different brains?

http://www.thefword.org.uk/features/2007/12/how_not_to_writ 2007-12-08T14:42:01Z 2007-12-05T20:14:51Z Emma Wood

The Women's Design Service is celebrating 20 years of feminist activism from the planners' office to the building site. Eeva Berglund reports

http://www.thefword.org.uk/features/2007/11/architecture_is 2007-12-08T14:42:01Z 2007-11-09T23:06:55Z Eeva Berglund

Nicola Beauman makes a living from re-printing the forgotten works of female writers. She talks to Cazz Blase about chick lit, the 'surplus' women of the inter-war years and the book trade

http://www.thefword.org.uk/features/2007/10/the_woman_behin 2007-12-08T14:42:01Z 2007-10-31T12:40:45Z Cazz Blase

Football is supposedly a national obsession. But, from the media's coverage of the women's World Cup, it seems we are only interested when the players are men. Carrie Dunn reports

http://www.thefword.org.uk/features/2007/10/did_you_watch_a 2007-12-08T14:42:01Z 2007-10-05T22:47:07Z Carrie Dunn

Feminism is not just for women with high-flying careers, and feminists must do more to engage women who feel alienated from the movement, argues Jen Clayton

http://www.thefword.org.uk/features/2007/09/who_me_im_just 2007-12-08T14:42:01Z 2007-09-30T10:02:16Z Jen Clayton

Despite all our advances, men still dominate public life. But if they are so smart, asks Amity Reed, why can't they fathom how to do the housework?

http://www.thefword.org.uk/features/2007/08/maid_of_the_man 2007-12-08T14:42:01Z 2007-08-30T21:37:20Z Amity Reed http://noblesavage.me.uk/

A woman commentating on the beautiful game? Whoever heard of such a thing. Katherine confronts the sexist response to Jacqui Oatley's first stint on Match of the Day

http://www.thefword.org.uk/features/2007/06/female_commenta 2008-02-11T23:52:33Z 2007-06-02T20:09:25Z Katherine

When Eleanor Turner announced that she would not be changing her name after walking down the aisle, and instead her new husband would take on her surname, reactions ranged from shock to annoyance. She considers why breaking with tradition provokes such strong feelings

http://www.thefword.org.uk/features/2007/05/a_bride_by_any 2007-12-08T14:42:00Z 2007-05-02T15:21:54Z Eleanor Turner

Women don't want to be lumbered with the housework, but men aren't willing to pick up the bucket and mop. Right? JC Sutcliffe asks why women perpetuate the myth that men are incapable of doing domestic chores

http://www.thefword.org.uk/features/2007/03/the_farmer_want 2007-12-08T14:42:00Z 2007-03-29T21:48:48Z JC Sutcliffe