From the Morning Star. UNIONISED sex workers marked International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women on Tuesday by slamming Women’s Minister Harriet Harman for misunderstanding their plight. Ms Harman called on women to combat violence in the sex industry in an address to the Women’s Institute, where she singled out local newspapers’ tolerance of “adult

Researchers examining the link between sexual habits and alcohol consumption among 3,000 women found that half preferred sex after a tipple. Women said alcohol helped them lose their inhibitions and become more adventurous between the sheets. The study found that 75 per cent of women like to drink a glass of

We live in a society that has very successfully sold the sex industry to us as an empowering 'lifestyle' choice where women exploit men's 'need' for sex in order to extract money from them. We are told that it's a free choice and feminists who criticise that choice are prudes, anti sex and anti women. This cultural narrative is a chimera that disguises the real story ...

The minister for women calls on Women's Institute members in England to complain to editors about sex adverts in local newspapers.

Why is it that the Punditiers who were keen to kill Gordon are mainly women- Toynbee, Miles, Ashley? Sorry, but it can’t be that Blair was a sex object. Browns a fat father figure and strong women hate their dads but love a lothario. Sure, they pretend to know what cabinet ministers intend to do it could be that women have been gossiping to women. Could Kelly be the source? Alternatively, it...

The British government announced plans Wednesday to make it illegal to pay for sex with women forced into prostitution — a measure that sex workers say will put more women at risk.

The mass sterilization of women in Uzbekistan, as reported this weekend by the Associated Press, is a shrieking reminder that the battle for the global liberation of women is being lost. It was reported by Mansur Mirovalev that Uzbek health officials are "threatened with salary cuts, demotion or dismissal if they do not persuade at least two women a month to be sterilized."

Today John Denham MP can confirm he will be voting against the proposed increase in the pension age for women. The Government's plans to accelerate the state pension age increases mean that 500,000 women will have to wait for more than a year longer before receiving the state pension, leaving many women aged 56 and 57 feeling robbed. 300,000 women born between 6 December 1953 and 5 October 19...

Today we have published Women and Recession, a report considering the impacts that this downturn will have for women in formal employment. While we are not arguing that women will be affected more than men we highlight that women will be hit more by this downturn than previous recessions, and that...

Research published today on London’s sex industry – and the experiences of the women who can be trafficked into forced prostitution - is chilling. Some women valued at £15 a go, and recognition from male purchasers that the prices are so low they may be buying sex with slaves: She was frightened...