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    How can I reduce my beauty budget?

    Got a beauty dilemma? Our expert is here to offer advice. This week, Marguerite wants to know if she’s spending too much on her routine
  • Eva Wiseman

    Why are we so drawn to the ‘tradwife’ fantasy?

    Eva Wiseman
  • Jeff Goldblum smiling, behind a table full of orange flowers

    Jeff Goldblum, eccentric as ever at 71; the fallacy of ‘tradwives’; and ‘My dying wife found me a girlfriend’ – podcast

  • image of a woman in a housedress that appears to be from about the 1950s. the image is altered with concentric rings over it, as if a drop of water fell in a puddle

    Sundresses and rugged self-sufficiency: ‘tradwives’ tout a conservative American past ... that didn’t exist

  • Portrait of Victoria Pendleton showing large tattoos on her upper arms and shoulders.

    Bullied, belittled but indisputably brilliant: how Victoria Pendleton survived everything – and became a cycling legend

  • Nathalie Olah

    I never realised how much freedom and comfort softness could bring

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News

  • A middle-aged white women standing on a stage talking to an unseen audience

    Doctor behind trial of HIV prevention drug recounts breakthrough moment

  • Jack and Harrison Edwards stand next to each other, one in a beanie and one in a baseball hat and holding a dachshund, outside the 99 Vintage store in Winchester.

    This old thing? How UK customers are clamouring for ‘trashed-look’ vintage clothing

  • On the set of Craig's Wife (1936), left to right: film editor Viola Lawrence, star Rosalind Russell, screenwriter McCall and director Dorothy Arzner.

    Credit at last for female screenwriter airbrushed from Hollywood history

  • Sienna Miller

    M&S increases stocks of smaller womenswear sizes due to higher demand

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Talking points

  • Emma Beddington

    DIY smear tests are on their way? I’ll be first in the queue

    Emma Beddington
  • Eva Wiseman

    How much would you pay, honestly, to get back with your ex?

    Eva Wiseman
    • Eva Wiseman

      Polyamory? Celibacy? Today’s sexual politics reveals much about the way we live

      Eva Wiseman
    • Zoe Williams

      The truth about vaginas: how I became a committed vulva-splainer

      Zoe Williams
    • A silhouette of a woman in a seated yoga pose

      We should embrace our inner goddess – but let’s not create another test for women to fail

      Jackie Bailey
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Video

  • Frozen in Time: the motherhood dilemma for single women in China

  • From first crush to first love, from the closet to coming out and from loss to connection. For the last 25 years, retired schoolteacher Arden Eversmeyer travelled from Houston across the US to record hundreds of oral 'herstories' from a rapidly disappearing population. Old Lesbians honours Arden’s legacy by animating the resilient, joyful voices she preserved in the Old Lesbian Oral Herstory Project – a powerful reminder of the strength, resilience and unwavering spirit of these remarkable women

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    Old Lesbians: reclaiming old age and queerness through storytelling

    From first crush to first love, from the closet to coming out and from loss to connection. For the last 25 years, retired schoolteacher Arden Eversmeyer travelled from Houston across the US to record hundreds of oral 'herstories' from a rapidly disappearing population. Old Lesbians honours Arden’s legacy by animating the resilient, joyful voices she preserved in the Old Lesbian Oral Herstory Project – a powerful reminder of the strength, resilience and unwavering spirit of these remarkable women
  • The TV personality and a patron of the campaign group Menopause Mandate voiced her displeasure at the behaviour of government equalities ministers, whom she accused of ignoring the needs of menopausal women

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    Carol Vorderman 'absolutely disgusted' by ministers' attitude to menopause – video

    The TV personality and a patron of the campaign group Menopause Mandate voiced her displeasure at the behaviour of government equalities ministers, whom she accused of ignoring the needs of menopausal women
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Women in politics

  • Birthday card for a man with a silhouette of a footballer on the front and the words "Happy Birthday"

    The card that’s a sign of eternal friendship

  • Women sewing machinists from the Ford Motor Company plant in Dagenham taking strike action in June 1968.

    How can women get equality? Strike!

    Sally Howard
  • Tulip Siddiq is the Labour MP for Hampstead & Kilburn. She recently postponed her caesarian section to vote on the Brexit deal - has since given birth to Raphael.

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

  • Lady Gaga, Michelle Obama, Rihanna, Adele and Angela Merkel

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

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