Women's News Eco-awareness is the new sex appeal - and here are 6 ways to show you have itThe Telegraph - By Shane WatsonRemember when we were out there looking for The One there were a few standard non negotiables: a reasonable standard of personal hygiene; basic domestic skills (grade one cooking, not necessarily up to
Women's News Take the Stella pollThe Telegraph - By Telegraph ReportersThe Stella poll is sent out weekly to subscribers of the Stella Daily newsletter. This week supermodel Naomi Campbell left fans baffled as she revealed her travel must-haves. While sunglasses, cashmere
Women's News Sexist trampolines and 7 other things we should never do on our ownThe Telegraph - By Rosa SilvermanA surprising new front has opened in the battle for gender equality: trampolines. Never mind boardrooms or bedrooms, or anywhere else we might expect to have to fight for our rights; a sexist trampoline
Libraries 'We have libraries that are under-utilised - let's give them a revamp and new purpose'The Telegraph - By Rosa SilvermanIt’s 11am on a Thursday at the British Library, and in an upstairs auditorium about a hundred young women (and a handful of men) are listening to a talk. Many hold smartphones aloft to photograph the that
Melinda Gates 'People assumed Bill knew more than me': Melinda Gates on being one half of the world's top power coupleThe Telegraph - By Rosa SilvermanMelinda Gates may be half of a billionaire power couple, but she still had her own fight for equality Melinda Gates is a private person. She believes, however, that by sharing our stories “we can change
Women's News Meet Livia Simoka, the fearless filmmaker who broke up a fight between tribes in the CongoThe Telegraph - By Guy KellySo, I ask Livia Simoka, is there anything you’re scared of? She falls silent in thought, her eyes drifting across the rooftop of a private members club in East London, where we've met. It’s mid-afternoon
Love Island Love Island isn't giving teenage girls body anxiety issues - stop patronising usThe Telegraph - By Emily JenkinsMy name is Emily. I am 17 years-old, and I am addicted to Love Island. Until last year, the idea of watching scantily-clad young adults pretend to fall in love for £50,000 was laughable. I spent my school
Armed Forces We must defend our armies against the 'woke' authoritariansThe Telegraph - By Allison PearsonForgive me, I’m going to go out on a limb here and assume that the readers of this column are still in full possession of their marbles. (Is “marbles” offensive yet? I’m losing mine, so I honestly can’t
Women's News Time to make cricket free-to-air again – our crown jewel in this glorious summer of sportThe Telegraph - By Allison PearsonWell, which did you watch on Sunday? At Pearson Towers, we tried to watch both. He was upstairs with the cricket, I was down with the tennis. “Siiiiiiiiiixxxxxxxx! Sorry, you actually have to come and
Women's News What we can all learn from The Squad's dignified response to TrumpThe Telegraph - By Helen Chandler-WildeThe problem with political debate today - and the solution - can be seen in the aftermath of President Trump’s latest racially charged tweet barrage: he wrote on Twitter that four Congresswomen of colour
Women's News 'It's not infatuation, it's controlling': The shocking truth about why so many millennial women are in abusive relationshipsThe Telegraph - By Harriet Barber“It took three days of being blanked, a piercing silence broken occasionally by slammed doors, a book taken from my hands and thrown across our bedroom, and instructions to not tell my family before I
Women's News Nasa’s Nicole Stott on life aboard the ISS as the only womanThe Telegraph - By Anna ClarkeWhen Nicole Stott became the first woman to join the International Space Station (ISS) missions, jokes abounded about how the all-male crew would have to adjust. “Before I got there it was all guys,” the
Menopause The gap between motherhood and the menopause is getting smaller - here's how to copeThe Telegraph - By Clio WoodAs women increasingly have children later, the age when menopause kicks in - usually somewhere between 45 and 55 - is sometimes only a few years away. Here, Clio Wood explores how the gap between the and
Lashana Lynch Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s black, female 007 is the worst kind of virtue-signallingThe Telegraph - By Celia WaldenIt’s (semi) official: 007 is a woman. A black woman. According to a Sunday report, ending the years of conjecture prompted by Daniel Craig’s announcement that he was standing down as James Bond, British
Women's News Dancing is a sign of 'developed socialisation', which is bad news for non-dancers like meThe Telegraph - By Sophia Money-CouttsDo you remember the first dance you went to? I was 10 and it was in a village hall in the Scottish Borders. I wore blue eyeliner and a hessian sack that was apparently working night shifts as a dress.
Women's News Why Labour's anti-Semitism problem could soon be overThe Telegraph - By Zoe StrimpelYou just had to laugh (and cry). Here we have a Labour party, run by people who are on one hand avowed anti-racists, dedicated to rooting out every whiff of off-colour language where black and Muslim are
Women's News Ali MacGraw: I was a 1960s Hollywood siren married to the sexiest man alive, but I'm happier now I'm 80The Telegraph - By Jessamy CalkinAli MacGraw was the biggest female star in Hollywood, then married the world’s sexiest man – and then turned her back on it all. Jessamy Calkin discovers the secrets of her survival… Who is Ali MacGraw?
Women's News Zara’s £40 polka-dot maxi is proof that dressing for yourself never goes out of fashionThe Telegraph - By Bryony GordonNot since Elizabeth Hurley wore a gown stuck together with safety pins has a dress made such an impact on the social and cultural landscape. The Zara spotted frock – a simple white maxi dress with black
Marriage As I said my vows, I knew our marriage wouldn’t lastThe Telegraph - By Anonymous authorI met Chris* in the pub when I was 17 and he was 24. We chatted all night and when he offered me a lift home, we ended up driving around for hours, as neither of us wanted to leave. Weeks later he took
Women's News How do prime ministers sleep at night? Some considerably better than othersThe Telegraph - By Harry MountHow do prime ministers sleep at night? This week, Theresa May said: “There are times you wake up in the middle of the night thinking about things that are going on.” But does the heavy burden of running
Women's News 9 signs you're having a pre-holiday meltdownThe Telegraph - By Annabel Rivkin and Emilie McMeekanDo holidays actually threaten our mental stability, rather than boost it? The ‘before’ bit is a car crash of trying to get everything done so we don’t have to work while we’re away (we always have to while
Wimbledon Who are the husbands and boyfriends of Wimbledon 2019?The Telegraph - By Rosa SilvermanBehind every great woman at Wimbledon is...well, probably a pretty good coach, for a start. But many are also cheered on by their dedicated Husbands And Boyfriends. Forget the WAGs, people; we bring you
Common Sense During a witch hunt, the first casualty is common senseThe Telegraph - By Judith WoodsYou know how racist people tend to say things like “I’m not racist, but...”, and how shadow cabinet members mumble “I’m not anti-Semitic, but...” before going on to make outrageous statements that suggest
Women's News Why are so many vulnerable Chinese women being detained at Yarl's Wood?The Telegraph - By Charlotte LyttonThe note passed to a client in desperation reading, simply, ‘help me’ should have been enough to secure Shuai’s path to safety. But after handing the slip of paper to a man at the brothel where she was
Women's News In America there are more men called John leading companies than there are women - which is why I'm taking the fight globalThe Telegraph - By Ann CairnsWith all the concerns over Brexit it’s easy to forget what has worked well over the past few years. I count the 30% Club in that bucket. Since 2010 we have worked to increase the number of women on boards
Women's News It’s time Meghan was taught a well-known British phrase: ‘Get over yourself, love’The Telegraph - By Allison PearsonDiana would never have done it. That was my first reaction to the news that the christening of the baby son of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex would be conducted in private in a chapel at Windsor Castle,
Ian McKellen Trigger warnings at the theatre are pandering to a PC, over-sensitive section of societyThe Telegraph - By Allison PearsonFriends are urging me to go and see Sir Ian McKellen in the one-man show marking his 80th birthday. The great actor, forever that impish lad from Bolton, delivers readings from Lord of the Rings and Shakespeare
Toxic Masculinity Love Island's Maura is a one-woman antidote to toxic masculinityThe Telegraph - By Judith WoodsShe swears like a sailor, she eyes men up like a predator, she is sexually explicit and has introduced the term “fanny flutters” into the national lexicon. Parents are horrified by her, Generation Z lionise
Women's News 'I got a new job. Then I discovered I was pregnant - here's how I told my new boss'The Telegraph - By Sian HawkinsI’ve always considered myself quite brave when it comes to confronting difficult subjects or getting things out in the open. I am often described as “not backwards in coming forwards”. But having to meet
