Deadnaming Children Would Be Allowed Under School Policy
The leader of New Brunswick, Canada, is pushing his province to roll back a rule that required teachers to use a child’s preferred name and pronouns.
Gender
More women on UK boards but number of female bosses flatlines
Proportion of women on boards of 585 FTSE all-share listed companies rises from 36% to 40%, data showsUK businesses have improved female representation on their boards, research shows, but two-fifths of FTSE 100 firms still do not have a woman in one o…
Man Who Questioned Gender of Girl, 9, Spurs Outrage
A track and field event in British Columbia has engendered debate about transphobia in Canada.
Modernisation creeps on as London gentlemen’s clubs open to women
Pratt’s is the latest establishment haunt to allow female members but others are still resistant to changeMild signs of a potential willingness to modernise have been observed in some of central London’s establishment clubs in the past few weeks, led b…
Taiwan’s ruling party rocked by sexual harassment claims
President apologises for second time in a week as politics and media embroiled in #MeToo allegations Taiwan’s ruling party has been rocked by a wave of sexual harassment allegations, as the country grapples with a #MeToo movement that has encompassed p…
London school drops ‘Sir’ and ‘Miss’ honorifics to fight cultural misogyny
Principal of high-performing sixth form said two forms are ‘deeply unequal’ and diminish womenTeachers at a leading sixth form will no longer answer to “Sir” and “Miss”, because they’re “deeply unequal” and feed into a view of the world that diminishes…
Trans activists disrupt Kathleen Stock speech at Oxford Union
Gender-critical feminist’s speech temporarily stopped after protester glues themself to floorThe gender-critical feminist Dr Kathleen Stock was forced to temporarily halt her contested appearance at the Oxford Union after a trans activist glued themsel…
Kathleen Stock says she is a ‘moderate’ as protests planned over Oxford debate
Former professor who argues trans people cannot expect all rights afforded by biological sex is due to speak at Oxford UnionKathleen Stock, the gender-critical feminist whose forthcoming address to Oxford university students on Tuesday has prompted pla…
UK women ‘twice as likely to miss out on pensions auto-enrolment’
TUC says its study suggests one in 10 women have employers who do not have to enter them into a pensionWomen are more than twice as likely as men to miss out on being automatically put into a workplace pension, according to a report.The Trades Union Co…
Police Scotland chief constable says force is institutionally racist
Iain Livingstone says ‘institutional racism, sexism, misogyny and discrimination exist’ in forcePolice Scotland is institutionally racist and discriminatory, its chief constable, Iain Livingstone, has said in a public acknowledgement that has been welc…