Tag: Women

The 2020 Oxford International Women’s Festival is set to take place from Saturday 29th of February until Sunday 14th of March, 50 years after the inaugural Women’s Liberation Conference...

“We don’t want your solidarity and empty words. We want you to stand with us.”

Across several Oxford colleges, portrait exhibitions centred on the achievements of female and ethnic minority alumni and academics have been held this month. Portraits of...

The narrative of resistance and domination in relationships has been the recourse of storytellers since pre-Christian times, with the same lurid, visceral quality evident in Greek myth as in the modern trend of disturbingly violent porn. Yet these primal, animalistic tropes of female subjugation now exist in a ‘civilised’ society, whose vernacular is one of #TimesUp, sex positivity and high-street feminism.

Claire Taylor, an alumnus of The Queen’s College, Oxford, is known for being one of the best female cricketers England has ever seen. Taylor...

“The opportunities are much, much greater than they were 30 years ago”

The banner is a reproduction of an original flown by the Oxford Women's Suffrage Society

An exploration of the history of female students at Oxford

Why we are wrong to hype Bodyguard over Killing Eve

The study suggests women are more likely to be judged based on their personality than men

At one single graduation ceremony, ten women were turned away for not wearing socks

The letter was written in 1905 by Annie Kenney, the first suffragette to be imprisoned in the campaign for the vote

Somerville and Wadham JCRs have each supported £250 worth of funding for The Sisterhood Festival, a charity music event organised exclusively by and for those whose identify as women

Eleanor Harris argues that while everyday sexism is very real, the term itself detracts from the feminist movement as a whole