Women

We need more women MPs – but we can’t just expect women to stand for election. We must act
Lyanne Nicholl

We need more women MPs – but we can’t just expect women to stand for election. We must act

Number of women sleeping rough on England’s street may be nine times higher than government thinks
Homelessness

Number of women sleeping rough on England’s street may be nine times higher than government thinks

Top 5 books about women and water, chosen by The Tidal Year author Freya Bromley
Books

Top 5 books about women and water, chosen by The Tidal Year author Freya Bromley

‘The pain was too much’: Black woman says she almost died in childbirth due to ‘racial prejudices’
Health

‘The pain was too much’: Black woman says she almost died in childbirth due to ‘racial prejudices’

Police failings over Sarah Everard’s killer shows how we’re still failing survivors of sexual offences
Verity Nevitt

Police failings over Sarah Everard’s killer shows how we’re still failing survivors of sexual offences

How baby banks are fighting child poverty and empowering mums in the cost of living crisis
Mother's Day

How baby banks are fighting child poverty and empowering mums in the cost of living crisis

Sarah Everard: How many more women will be killed before crimes are taken seriously?
Amy Bowdrey

Sarah Everard: How many more women will be killed before crimes are taken seriously?

‘There was no way out’: Survivors of domestic abuse forced to stay with abusers or face destitution
Cost of living crisis

‘There was no way out’: Survivors of domestic abuse forced to stay with abusers or face destitution

‘We felt like absolute stars’: Behind the 1971 women’s football World Cup the world forgot
Sport

‘We felt like absolute stars’: Behind the 1971 women’s football World Cup the world forgot

Banks must stop financing oil and gas as women face the worst impacts of the climate crisis
Zahra Hdidou

Banks must stop financing oil and gas as women face the worst impacts of the climate crisis

We need to stop hoping for a cure and prevent women and girls from facing poverty and abuse
Indy Cross

We need to stop hoping for a cure and prevent women and girls from facing poverty and abuse

Domestic abuse is escalating in the cost of living crisis. We need urgent change
Abigial Ampofo

Domestic abuse is escalating in the cost of living crisis. We need urgent change

France just made abortion a constitutional right – so why is UK’s abortion law so backward?
Abortion

France just made abortion a constitutional right – so why is UK’s abortion law so backward?

I felt thoroughly British as a teen – until I put on a hijab and became visibly Muslim
Nadeine Asbali

I felt thoroughly British as a teen – until I put on a hijab and became visibly Muslim

Women share harrowing accounts of painful NHS hysteroscopies: ‘I begged the doctor to stop’
Health

Women share harrowing accounts of painful NHS hysteroscopies: ‘I begged the doctor to stop’

We’ve had to pause our life-saving work helping new mums – we simply can’t afford to keep going
Maggie Gordon-Walker

We’ve had to pause our life-saving work helping new mums – we simply can’t afford to keep going

Advertisement
The Big Issue Changemakers of 2024: Women, family and children
Changemakers 2024

The Big Issue Changemakers of 2024: Women, family and children

Gathering: Women of Colour on Nature review – natural highs from our natural world
Books

Gathering: Women of Colour on Nature review – natural highs from our natural world

‘This Victorian-era law isn’t fit for purpose’: Is abortion finally going to be decriminalised?
Abortion

‘This Victorian-era law isn’t fit for purpose’: Is abortion finally going to be decriminalised?

Meet the ‘Queenagers’ breathing life into the travel industry: ‘You’ve got to go for it’
the future of travel

Meet the ‘Queenagers’ breathing life into the travel industry: ‘You’ve got to go for it’