The women who came before: Rachel Reeves’s three Labour leading lights
Reeves, who could be Britain’s first female chancellor, has named three women on whose shoulders she would stand
The law on single-sex spaces is a mess. It needs fixing, not political point-scoring
Sonia Sodha
Labour’s reaction to Kemi Badenoch’s plan to define sex is not only a hapless fudge, it’s legally illiterate
Tories will allow bars on trans women, says Kemi Badenoch
Conservatives would change law so trans people could be excluded from single-sex spaces, if party wins election
May 2024
Overseas schools given ‘British’ accreditation despite anti-equality curriculum
UK government allows British private schools in countries like UAE to use BSO kitemark while not teaching about same-sex relationships
Garrick club chair says ‘exceptional lady members’ may be fast-tracked
Christopher Kirker tells members that normal waiting times will apply for most women as concerns raised about tokenism
The Garrick Club needs women. But try telling that to the members with the locker-room bants
Anonymous
Only women can rid the club of the guardians of the Y-chromosome’s ‘we’ve always done it this way’ misogyny
April 2024
Brief letters
Time for volunteers to get equal protection from sexual harassment
‘Danger zone’: the warnings designed to protect women at UK business events
January 2024
Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
Reports PM privately thinks Rwanda plan won’t work are why costs must be published, Yvette Cooper says – as it happened
Yvette Cooper opens debate that, if passed, would force government to publish confidential documents about costs of Rwanda scheme
December 2023
Bibby Stockholm policy is discriminatory, Home Office report finds
Assessment says policy is ‘directly discriminating in relation to age [and] sex’ and says changes may have to be made
August 2023
Government targeting UK minorities with social media ads despite Facebook ban
Starmer yet to resolve policy split with Scottish Labour on gender recognition
July 2023
Labour will lead on reform of transgender rights – and we won’t take lectures from the divisive Tories
Anneliese Dodds
Other lives
Robin Schneider obituary
UK equality watchdog restarts inquiry into bullying claims against chair
Clarify Equality Act to better distinguish sex and gender, EHRC chair tells MPs
June 2023
How did NHS body get the law so badly wrong over its rules on same-sex care?
Sonia Sodha
New healthcare guidance could deny female patients their legitimate rights. It should be withdrawn
Mind-reading tech ‘must include neurodivergent people to avoid bias’
UK data watchdog says science of monitoring brain and nervous system is expanding fast but holds ‘real danger’ of discrimination
Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
Rishi Sunak confirms he will not talk about US-UK free trade deal with Joe Biden – as it happened
Latest updates: prime minister explicitly accepts formal post-Brexit trade deal with US is not on horizon, implying this is no longer a goal
May 2023
Chair of UK’s equality watchdog being investigated after staff complaints
EHRC’s Kishwer Falkner rejects allegations by 12 current or ex-colleagues, and her supporters say she is victim of witch-hunt over stance on trans issues
