By Fiona Scott

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I have never particularly liked Richard Branson, but I have watched his efforts to turn into Mufasa from the Lion King with some degree of interest. I have also recently developed a morbid fear of finding myself on holiday on the island of Necker with Branson and his coterie of ‘eclectic’ companions, having to listen […]

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    The news that Japanese pop star Minami Minegishi shaved her head in a public act of mea culpa because she felt guilty about spending the night with her boyfriend and contravening girl band AKB48′s dating rules got me thinking. Not, as is probably more appropriate, about Japanese approaches to traditional gender roles and […]

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Company magazine: often, it’s the lesser of many evils. It isn’t edited (usually) by 40 year old women who purport to fancy Harry Styles. It isn’t a member of the Trashy Weekly Glossies club, and it doesn’t have tip after tip about how to ‘please your man’. It is basically the monthly edition of all […]

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Recently the BBC reported that women are still struggling to make their mark in Hollywood. This much is obvious from a glance – how many female directors currently working can you name that aren’t Kathryn Bigelow? – but the scale of this under-representation might come as more of a surprise. Staggeringly, the study cited revealed that of the […]

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I was batting emails back and forth recently with a Christian journalist – that’s right, I know how to live it up – when, after I thought it critical to highlight the very blatant and very corrosive sexism in the Bible, the journalist told me that I had no right to “lecture” her on women’s […]

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