This is just a brief post to tell you about a project that has been cooking up over the summer. This October, a new series of feminist workshops is going to launch - I’ve been working on this project, along with zohra moosa (you can read about us here). Spotting Sexism will be a four-week workshop for

The Facebook group Say NO to Sexism in the City has been set up to show Rosemarie Corscadden support in her ongoing trial to get some sort of compensation after suffering years of sexual harrassment in her job and now Nadine Nasser. Turns out it's quite widespread in the City. Quelle surprise. Mary Honeyball MEP has written about it in her Honeyball Buzz and explains how the city banks lawyer...

I can't help but think BSkyB and News International slamming its employees for sexism is a bit like George Osborne complaining that his weekly food shopping bill has increased- they both only have themselves to blame. Sky Sports News openly flaunts its sex appeal (see recent advert), and has a history of employing young, attractive female presenters to work alongside middle-aged male pundits,...

A couple of things bugged me over the weekend regarding racism and sexism. We've already had people claiming that the economic crisis was caused by white blue-eyed men - yeah, maybe ... but if it was it was because white, blue-eyed men were lending money to black and Hispanic people who didn't have the means to pay back what they owed. I'd also argue that African economics is largel...

Over on Telegraph Blogs today, Jenny McCartney is attacking a report on ‘Benevolent Sexism’, which basically entails very minor acts of goodwill that could still be construed as sexist. McCartney’s problem is specifically centred around the following examples: [C]alling women “girls” but not men “boys”; believing that women should be cherished and protecte...

Geoffrey Robertson: A hereditary head of state and a system based on sexism and religious discrimination have no place in 21st-century Britain

A CONSERVATIVE Party association chairman apologised "unreservedly" after saying he would select a female MP only "if they were attractive".

The role of women in the City will be the subject of a new inquiry launched by the Treasury Committee.

The deputy Labour leader was criticised for presiding over a fall in the proportion of women on the boards of public bodies while attacking sexism in the City

Could these tensions be eased by the appointment of a woman as the full-time president or the foreign policy supremo? In principle, yes, writes Tony Berber