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London’s forgotten businesswomen

20 Sep 2019

A new exhibition celebrates the City of London's 18th-century female entrepreneurs

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“Our weapon is public opinion”

01 Feb 2018

One of the largest surviving collections of suffrage posters from the early twentieth century are housed in Cambridge University Library’s famous...

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Mona Siddiqui

Let’s talk about Islam and women’s rights

19 Feb 2014

Professor Mona Siddiqui will be in Cambridge from 10 to 13 March to give a series of public talks that go to the heart of the debate that surrounds...

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"Centipede". The study investigated the experiences of Chinese women aged 26 to 34 who are scorned as “leftovers” because they are high-achievers who have failed to get married.

China's "leftovers" are rejects in a man's world

28 Feb 2013

In China, hysteria is growing about a rising number of so-called “leftover women”, who are highly successful but remain unmarried. A new study...

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Women of the World

We need to talk about women

28 Feb 2013

The urgent need to champion the rights of women around the world is the central theme of a series of lectures to be delivered in Cambridge next week...

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