Opinion: Underfunding Women’s Refuges is State Violence
Craig Gent
Partial reforms don’t scratch the surface of a decade-long assault on an entire network of support for women and their children, writes Craig Gent.
Tag: international women’s day
Report: The Women Who Can’t Strike Today Are Exactly Why We Must
Sophie K Rosa
The pandemic has shown how women's work is disproportionately underpaid, undervalued and unsafe. On International Women's Day, many have gone on strike, but many more won't be able to. Sophie K Rosa reports.
internationalwomensday.com Is a Corporate Hijack
Rosa Campbell
Google ‘international women’s day’ and the first hit that comes up is internationalwomensday.com. Despite looking the part, the site is an exercise in corporate co-option, promoting international companies with a history of exploitative labour practices, writes Rosa Campbell.
Sidelined No Longer, Sex Workers Led the Women’s Strike
Sophie K Rosa
At the heart of a feminism for all, the push for sex worker rights is a movement in which women who experience intersecting oppression and who have been marginalised by mainstream feminism are fighting back and winning.
As the Far Right Comes for Feminism, Women in Spain Have Gone on Strike
Tommy Greene and Eoghan Gilmartin
In Spain, millions of protesters have taken to the streets for International Women's Day. Amid a conservative backlash against feminism's social and political demands, they are marching and striking against domestic violence, inequality at work, unrecognised forms of labour and transphobia.
Sisterhood and Solidarity: How Pakistan’s Feminists Started an Anti-War Movement
Sophie K Rosa
As women in Pakistan prepare for the country’s second International Women’s Day March, the feminist movement has adopted an anti-war agenda that attacks militarism from an explicitly anti-capitalist, feminist and postcolonial perspective.
5 Reasons Feminists in Leeds Are Striking on 8 March
Luke Dukinfield
Wrenched from its radical roots in the struggles of working class women, International Women’s Day has been increasingly defanged in the name of corporate interest. Luke Dukinfield makes the case for reclaiming it.
Argentinian Women Might Finally Be Winning the Fight to Decriminalise Abortion
Adriano Mérola Marotta
Abortion is illegal in Argentina, but in recent years the country's strong feminist movement has made enormous strides in changing public opinion on the issue. As a decriminalisation bill travels through congress, International Women’s Day saw tens of thousands of women protest in Buenos Aires, with demands for free, safe and legal, abortion taking centre-stage.