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  • My father beat, starved and belittled me. Love and therapy saved my life

    As a child, the actor Antonia Bernath feared for her safety every day. When she was 10, she and her mother escaped, but there was more tragedy to come. She describes how she put herself back together

  • A shopping guide to the best … summer hats

  • I can only climax in one position. Why do my lovers try to talk me out of it?

  • ‘I started to unravel’: Why do so many women over 40 struggle with stress?

  • A shopping guide to the best … colourful shorts

  • Ozempic has won, body positivity has lost. And I want no part of it

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News

  • UK women ‘twice as likely to miss out on pensions auto-enrolment’

    • Simple measures could save 1 million babies a year, doctors plead

    • TikTok cashing in on sale of counterfeit cosmetics and prescription skin creams

    • Gal-Dem, magazine for women and non-binary people of colour, to fold

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Talking points

  • Kathryn Bromwich

    There is so much more for us to worry about than men masquerading as women to access single-sex spaces

    Kathryn Bromwich

  • The pill’s effects on women can be devastating. We need better information, now

    Kate Muir
    • Catherine Bennett

      Breast is best if you want top marks for your children? You’ve got to be kidding

      Catherine Bennett
    • Arwa Mahdawi

      Buff billionaires are latest sign that bulk is now beautiful for male body image

      Arwa Mahdawi
    • Morwenna Ferrier

      Who says clothes aren’t a matter of life or death? In Succession they’re both

      Morwenna Ferrier
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Video

  • Women's rights will be respected 'within the limits of Islam', say Taliban – video

     

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  • Pressure to procreate: inside Hungary’s baby drive – video

     

    Hungary has one of the lowest birthrates in Europe, and the prime minister, Viktor Orbán, is spending significant money trying to convince young people to have babies. Leah Green and Ekaterina Ochagavia visit Budapest, where they meet three women of similar age and with very different outlooks on the country’s parenting drive

  • Being childfree: five women on why they chose not to have kids – video

     

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    As part of the Guardian's Childfree series, five women discuss why having children isn't for them – and how others perceive them as a result. 'There's no wrong way to be a woman,' says Sabrina, 25

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Women in politics

  • The card that’s a sign of eternal friendship

  • How can women get equality? Strike!

    Sally Howard

  • Tulip Siddiq: ‘I needed a caesarean – instead I was at parliament’

  • In praise of loud women – the joy and power of being noisy and female

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