Category: Women

Taliban move to ban women training as nurses and midwives ‘an outrageous act of ignorance’ | Afghanistan

The Taliban’s ban on Afghan women attending nursing and midwife courses has been condemned as “an outrageous act of ignorance” by human rights organisations. The official decree detailing the ban has not been shared publicly, but several media reports confirmed that the order was announced at a meeting of the Taliban public health ministry on […]

As a middle-class woman of a certain age, all I can say is: ‘Thank you, Gregg Wallace’ | Zoe Williams

Gregg Wallace, accused of “inappropriate behaviour”, had stepped away from MasterChef and was keeping his head down while lawyers were engaged – on behalf of the production company, Banijay UK, and for Wallace himself. Or at least, that is what everyone assumed was happening. What happened instead was Wallace unfiltered: he delivered a straight-to-camera Instagram […]

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