womens rights

Three women standing with arms folded across their naked bodies, heads not visible.

Features

Meet the Bristol artist casting nipples to celebrate bodies 

Ellen Downes’ pioneering bodycasting project aims to help women, trans and non-binary people 'connect to' their bodies, while challenging hypersexualisation and sexual harassment.

Healing is a justice issue: how can we radicalise the voluntary sector, amid a perfect storm of cuts?

Listen: The Sound Of Saffron by Charlie West

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The menopause leaves some women struggling to work. But what can be done about it?

From depression to anxiety and chronic pain, it can be debilitating to go through the menopause. The Cable spoke to women about their experience and support at work.

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Do women really have equity in Bristol workplaces?

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Voices

When it doesn’t pay to work: how universal free childcare would help us all

‘It’s not pro-life, it’s pro-misogyny’: Bristol marches on abortion rights

A protest on Saturday saw speakers bring to light the murky legal picture around abortion in the UK, just two weeks after the US Supreme Court effectively banned abortions for millions.

Research by University of Bristol Students’ Union reveals half of respondents have experienced sexual harassment

Survey findings released today put the thorny issue of consent back under the spotlight at the University of Bristol.

PHOTOESSAY: March against male violence

In light of recent events, protesters took to the streets last weekend to demand men are held accountable for violence against women.

From factory boss’s daughter to community organiser – meet Bristol’s first woman councillor

Mabel Tothill was a champion of the labour movement and women's rights in East Bristol.

“A woman was denied emergency contraception at Asda. This is a private problem of public concern.”

When rights of different groups in society collide, compromises need to be made. But with reproductive rights, we need to do better so that women in need come first.

Investigation: Bristol’s invisible sex trade

The police are struggling to deal with sexual exploitation happening online. How does this off-street sex trade operate in this city?