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Advances for Scottish women undermined by economic policy
Although there has been some limited progress, how can we talk about flashy ideas like ‘feminist city planning’ when overall poverty and austerity have savagely attacked the position of the majority of women, asks HAILEY MAXWELL
Scotlands First Minister Nicola Sturgeon
ANDY McDONALD MP says Labour must show it is capable of delivering real improvements in people’s lives — bold action is required
ANGUS REID and ANDREW JOHNSTONE report on an initiative that we must take this summer
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At last weekend’s International Conference Against War, LINDA PENTZ GUNTER talks to the Palestinian physician and politician about the struggles ahead to achieve a truly free Palestine
THERE are few better times in the year than the eve of International Women’s Day to consider, in brief, the situation of women in Scotland. This year will be the last March where Nicola Sturgeon will be in office, though the possibility that she will be followed by another woman seems quite likely.
Under our first female First Minister, a number of promises for change have been made and some important reforms have been enacted, particularly around public-sector understanding and responses to gender-based violence.
The Scottish government’s Equally Safe strategy around the eradication of gender-based violence has begun the work of taking a systemic approach to undoing several centuries of ingrained misogyny through interventions in education, local authority practice and in healthcare.
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