POSTED BY Ruby Guyatt IN Featured, Media Spotlight ON Jul 21, 2014 | 0 comments

Daily Mail disgusts with ‘catwalk’ coverage

‘Unspeakably awful and demeaning spreads about women’. Last week’s big political news may have been the Cabinet reshuffle, but the Mail was preoccupied with women MPs’ wardrobes. The 16 July (2014) edition of the Daily Mail dedicated much of its front page and a double-page spread to dissecting the anatomy, dress and makeup of nine cabinet ministers. Esther McVey, who has served as Minister of State for Employment, appeared in the Mail’s front page alongside the title:...

POSTED BY Ruby Guyatt IN Featured, Media Spotlight ON Jul 4, 2014 | 0 comments

Change the labels media give women

Stop trivialising women’s achievements. The vice-president of Facebook in Europe has hit out at the words the media use in their portrayal of successful women. Speaking at a conference in London recently, Nicola Mendelsohn urged the media to change the language it uses to talk about women in business. “When I got my post at Facebook it was all about how I was a mother-of-four who had ‘won’ the position, alongside pictures of my wedding.” Mendelsohn said that the...

POSTED BY Campaigns IN Campaigns, Featured ON Mar 10, 2014 | 0 comments

Stop ignoring dead women

The Home Office has hidden the reality of men’s lethal violence against women and girls for too long. Karen Ingala Smith is petitioning Theresa May to stop ignoring dead women. This is why: On New Year’s Day, 2012, 20 year-old Kirsty Treloar got a text from her boyfriend Myles Williams: “Okay wer all gud now and my new yrs ressy is that I aint going to hit u again and I won’t hit u 4 this yr next yr the yr after that the next yr after that.” The next day he broke into her...