Advocacy & Policy, The Americas, Violence Against Women Charlotte Swainston Advocacy & Policy, The Americas, Violence Against Women Charlotte Swainston

The New Dawn Of Mexico’s First Female President

Every single day in Mexico, ten women or girls are murdered, simply because they are female. Will Mexico’s new female president be able to curb the tide on this lethal trend – or are the difficulties too entrenched for a single individual to make a significant impact?

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Tradwives: Nostalgia’s New Political Power

A tradwife is a woman who adheres to traditional gender roles and marriages, often as a homemaker. The tradwife lifestyle is often associated with conservative or alt-right political values. Some say that the tradwife trend is a risky throwback, and that it can lead to learned helplessness for both men and women.

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Advocacy & Policy, Culture, Health, UK, more top stories Charlotte Swainston Advocacy & Policy, Culture, Health, UK, more top stories Charlotte Swainston

Too Posh to Push?

Striking where it hurts most, at the class anxieties omnipresent British culture, ‘too posh to push’ insinuates that richer mothers seek to minimise their birthing experience to a relaxing day out by seeking a caesarean. The pejorative assumption that a 'natural' and non-medicalised birth is inherently 'better' than one requiring a large amount of medical intervention, but 'natural birth' above all else is one that has been widely disproved in the medical community.

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