London’s forgotten businesswomen
20 September 2019A new exhibition celebrates the City of London's 18th-century female entrepreneurs
“Our weapon is public opinion”
01 February 2018One of the largest surviving collections of suffrage posters from the early twentieth century are housed in Cambridge University Library’s famous tower.
Let’s talk about Islam and women’s rights
19 February 2014Professor Mona Siddiqui will be in Cambridge from 10 to 13 March to give a series of public talks that go to the heart of the debate that surrounds Islam and rights for women. At a concluding symposium she will be joined by a panel of distinguished speakers.
China's "leftovers" are rejects in a man's world
28 February 2013In China, hysteria is growing about a rising number of so-called “leftover women”, who are highly successful but remain unmarried. A new study suggests that the country’s traditional, patriarchal society may be to blame.
We need to talk about women
28 February 2013The urgent need to champion the rights of women around the world is the central theme of a series of lectures to be delivered in Cambridge next week by Melanne Verveer, who was the first US Ambassador for Global Women’s Issues.