Women’s rights

London Film Festival: The male perspective has dominated films for over a century. In her new documentary, Nina Menkes tracks how filmmakers have long objectified women – and why that’s so harmful.

As the UK creeps into a recession creeps, sexism could be another side-effect of the economic crisis.

Editor Matthew Whitehouse on this issue's 40-page cover-story, shot by Mert Alas & Marcus Piggott and featuring clothes made entirely by new designers.

In 2022, it can sometimes feel as though we’re enmeshed in a raging, unrelenting, unforgiving reversal of, well, everything progressive. So how do we push back the pushback?

Think more policing and harsher laws will stop violence against women? Think again. For Muslim women, in particular, it could only make life harder.

The French-Moroccan author of groundbreaking novels Adéle and Lullaby is back with the first instalment of a trilogy based on her family history. Here she discusses colonialism, women’s rights and the importance of looking back to look forward.