Honour Killing The recent killing of Shafilea Ahmed by her parents has put the issues of honour killing and multi-culturalism in the …

Peace not War A call to have more women taking part in peace-making missions, in line with UN Security Council Resolution 1325 …

Quotas Interestingly enough this comes at the same time as the European Commission postponed its own proposal that would oblige companies to …

Titanic Will the Titanic provide equality & diversity experts with much-needed new case-studies for training on ‘intersectionality’ – roughly to be translated …

Childbirth We can say that the ability to conceive and bear children is the last frontier of gender equality; it is possibly …

UK Slips It can of course be argued that the actual numbers of men and of women in political decision-making do not …

DSK The European Women’s Lobby (EWL) which is spearheading this renewed initiative (http://www.womenlobby.org/spip.php?article4084&lang=en) takes as inspiration going forward the ‘Swedish model’. The …

Vicar. Perhaps it’s time for a flash-back to happier times; Dawn French, Richard Curtis -where are you? The BBC sitcom created by …

Mantelgate. It all began at the British Museum. The two-time Booker prize winner, reflecting on her favourite historical period…the time of Henry …