The Relationship Gap

Women’s social and financial independence is disrupting the status quo of heterosexual relationships, but the impact of women’s liberation on LGBTQ+ relationships is harder to assess as there is much less data on this subject.

Too Posh to Push?

Striking where it hurts most, at the class anxieties omnipresent British culture, ‘too posh to push’ insinuates that richer mothers seek to minimise their birthing experience to a relaxing day out by seeking a caesarean. The pejorative assumption that a 'natural' and non-medicalised birth is inherently 'better' than one requiring a large amount of medical intervention, but 'natural birth' above all else is one that has been widely disproved in the medical community.

Generation Z and the Great Gender Divide

Young women are more liberal than ever, but the same cannot be said for young men. Why has this gap emerged, and is it too late to close it?

Street harassment in the UK: How far does new legislation go to protect women from harassment?

When public spaces, particularly late at night, are so deeply associated with fear for women, how far can legislation actually change our perception of public safety as women?

Motherhood and Feminism in Giorgia Meloni's Italy

In Meloni’s Italy, to be a woman is to be a mother, and the duty of motherhood is ensuring the continuation of a Christian, Italian nationhood through future generations. Immigrant or LGBTQ+ families are not part of this political imagination. They are instead treated as ideological threats to this unified identity.