Iraq’s Draft Child Marriage Law: A Step Backward for Women’s Rights

In a disturbing move that has shocked human rights advocates worldwide, Iraq’s parliament has proposed a law that would legalize child marriage, allowing girls as young as 9 to be wed.

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.

Something is Rotten in the State of Europe: Femicide in the EU

The Italian government contextualised femicide as a violent expression of misogyny. This echoes the common acknowledgement amongst international organisations, including UN Women, that femicide is a fatal consequence of gendered discrimination. Despite this understanding actions to enact systematic change, beyond superficial promises of educational reform, have not been taken.

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?