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Gender politics

  • Saturday, 7 December, 2024
    Isabel Berwick
    Don’t mess with the women of a certain age

    We are now a tribe, turbo-charged by friendship — and a lot of righteous anger

  • Friday, 6 December, 2024
    FT Magazine
    The FT’s 25 most influential women of 2024

    This year we celebrate the women remaking the world we live in today

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    FT Magazine
    Who are FT readers’ women of 2024?

    We asked you to nominate those who have shaped this year — here are the names you picked

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  • Saturday, 23 November, 2024
    Henry Mance
    What the ‘manopause’ tells us about the gender gap 

    Do male midlife challenges bear comparison with those experienced by women?

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  • Friday, 22 November, 2024
    Soumaya Keynes
    What’s behind the lesbian pay premium?

    After decades of earning more than heterosexual women, the gap seems to be shrinking

    Ann Kiernan illustration of a rainbow-coloured ribbon entwined around gender symbols
  • Sunday, 17 November, 2024
    Linda Colley
    The superpower glass ceiling

    Failure to elect a female leader is not a uniquely American problem

    Ben Hickey illustration of a female figure standing in a spotlight next to a ladder, looking up at the ceiling
  • Thursday, 7 November, 2024
    FT Magazine
    FT readers: who are the most influential women of 2024?

    We are collecting your nominations for our upcoming Women of the Year special

  • Tuesday, 5 November, 2024
    White House Watch
    Will gender be the defining story of the 2024 US election?

    Plus, preparing for market volatility and a final snapshot of the polls

    Voters make their selections at booths in Hendersonville, North Carolina
  • Tuesday, 5 November, 2024
    News in-depthUS presidential election 2024
    Divided America: will gender decide who wins the White House?

    Deep splits in the electorate have been exposed in a tumultuous race

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  • Thursday, 31 October, 2024
    Elizabeth Cobbs
    America’s gender-gap election has a long history

    The question of whether the US can stomach a woman as president remains open

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  • Monday, 28 October, 2024
    Rana Foroohar
    Women will decide America’s future

    Where female voters go, the result of the US presidential election follows

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  • Monday, 28 October, 2024
    News in-depthSaudi Arabia
    The Saudi factories powered by women

    A surge in female labour force participation has emerged as a bright spot for the kingdom

    Johnson factory for air conditioners, based in King Abdullah Economic City, Saudi Arabia
  • Saturday, 26 October, 2024
    US presidential election 2024
    Beyoncé brings star power as Kamala Harris touts ‘freedom’ in Texas

    Vice-president seeks to energise women voters as White House race against Donald Trump tightens

    Beyoncé introduced Kamala Harris at a campaign event in Houston on Friday night.
  • Wednesday, 9 October, 2024
    OutlookAmy Kazmin
    Italy’s single women fight for the right to IVF

    Currently the government only permits heterosexual, married women to undergo treatment

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  • Friday, 20 September, 2024
    Data PointsJohn Burn-Murdoch
    Young women are starting to leave men behind

    Men’s education deficit is increasingly becoming an employment, earnings and outcomes gap, with significant repercussions

    Four people stood in line, with the first two women and second two men
  • Wednesday, 18 September, 2024
    Special ReportThriving Cities
    Tackling period poverty in Lebanon’s refugee camps

    Education is also key for women and girls struggling with lack of privacy, poor water supply and the high cost of menstrual pads

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  • Sunday, 15 September, 2024
    News in-depthChinese society
    More Chinese women graduate but jobs and equal pay still elude them

    Women under-represented in Stem subjects at university and afterwards are quizzed about plans to start a family

    Graduates at Wuhan university
  • Saturday, 17 August, 2024
    The Weekend Essay
    ‘I am speaking’: on Kamala Harris and women’s voices

    As the US contemplates electing its first female president, Erica Wagner explores what the long fight for equality tells us about that choice

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  • Friday, 2 August, 2024
    Paris Olympics
    Olympics chiefs blame ‘misleading information’ for women’s boxing row

    IOC defends decision to include two competitors barred by international federation after opponent abandons fight

    Angela Carini, left, of Italy abandons her bout during a women’s 66kg tie against Algeria’s Imane Khelif in the North Paris Arena, August 1 2024
  • Friday, 2 August, 2024
    US presidential election 2024
    ‘I’ve been waiting for this my whole life’: Kamala Harris energises America’s women

    Democrat’s polling strength has also been underpinned by jump in support among the young and voters of colour

    Supporters take pictures with Democratic presidential candidate and vice-president Kamala Harris during a campaign event in Atlanta, Georgia on July 30 2024
  • Wednesday, 24 July, 2024
    Business InsightAmy Kazmin
    Italy is tying itself in knots over business gender quotas

    Unthinking patriarchy still dominates great swaths of public life in the country

    Giorgia Meloni
  • Wednesday, 17 July, 2024
    US Secret Service
    Secret Service target of misogynistic backlash after Trump shooting

    Rightwing commentators and politicians blame diversity and inclusion policies for alleged security failings

    Republican presidential candidate and former president Donald Trump gestures as he gets into a vehicle with the assistance of Secret Service personnel after he was shot in the right ear during a campaign rally at the Butler Farm Show in Butler, Pennsylvania on July 13 2024
  • Thursday, 4 July, 2024
    ReviewFilm
    Orlando: My Political Biography — entertaining manifesto film channels Virginia Woolf

    Twenty trans and non-binary people recount their experiences through the guise of the time-travelling protagonist

    A person in a blue T-shirt, skirt and cowboy boots stands in an orange room by a sign that says ‘Power to the People’
  • Friday, 21 June, 2024
    Is economics a losing game for women?

    Living on the wrong side of the tenure track

  • Thursday, 13 June, 2024
    Special ReportEurope’s Leading Patent Law Firms
    Studies highlight gender and race-based gaps in patent applications

    Disparities contribute to income inequalities and influence who receives funding for invention, researchers say

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