If this was a women’s issue we’d have fixed it already, Amy Hunt tells BBC Amy Hunt, whose mother and two sisters were murdered in their own home last year, has told the BBC there is an “epidemic” of misogyny in society that has “the most horrific, devastating consequences”. In her first interview since the...
Laura Bates on how algorithms are fuelling misogyny and radicalising young men. Read full article at source...
Getty Images Protestors at a UK Women’s March in Edinburgh in January, highlighting a rise in misogyny The Scottish government has confirmed it will not bring forward planned legislation to criminalise misogyny before next year’s Holyrood election. A bill has long been promised to improve protections for women and girls, but ministers now say there...
Getty Images Social media influencers are fuelling an increase in misogyny and sexism in schools, according to a new poll by a teaching union. Almost three in five teachers said they believe social media use has had a negative effect on behaviour in schools, the NASUWT poll of 5,800 teachers in the UK found. Influencer...
17 minutes ago ShareSave ShareSave A wide range of stories lead Saturday’s front pages. The Guardian leads with a story on how misogyny and racism are “flooding UK schools” due to students copying the behaviour of people like Donald Trump and Andrew Tate, according to a new survey by the NASUWT union. Government plans to...
Kate McGough Education producer BBC News / Kate McGough More than a third of secondary teachers have reported misogynistic behaviour from pupils at their school in the last week, a survey commissioned by BBC News suggests. About 40% of the teachers who responded also said they felt ill-equipped to handle such conduct. The BBC asked...
“The first Cold War delivered half a century of lies about NATO, the US-led ‘arms race’, the non-existent ‘Soviet threat’ and US military bases in Britain – the new Cold War will be similar, but with deeper cuts to public services and social security programmes”, Carol Stavris told the Communist Party’s Political Committee on...