Politics
‘Deal with the women’s issue or enjoy oblivion’: conservative women on whether they can still call the Liberal party home
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/may/10/liberal-party-women-say-watershed-moment-needed-to-win-them-back
Trump’s Orwellian erasure of women
https://time.com/7284644/trumps-erasure-of-women/
Government Launches One Time Scholarship Recognizing 100th Anniversary of Women’s Suffrage
https://vocm.com/2025/05/08/government-launches-one-time-scholarship-recognizing-100th-anniversary-of-womens-suffrage/
Quebec Solidaire introduces bill on free contraception for women in province
https://www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/article/quebec-solidaire-introduces-bill-on-free-contraception-for-women-in-province/
‘Whipped in front of everyone’: three women on being flogged by the Taliban
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/may/06/afghanistan-taliban-sharia-law-mahram-women-flogging-public-moral-crimes-guardians
Germany’s Social Democrats unveil majority-female ministerial team
https://www.euractiv.com/section/politics/news/germanys-social-democrats-unveil-majority-female-ministerial-team/
Women political leaders are rare – but 450 years ago, Anna Jagiellon was elected Queen of Poland
https://theconversation.com/women-political-leaders-are-rare-but-450-years-ago-anna-jagiellon-was-elected-queen-of-poland-253033
Dropping misogyny law is sign of wider retreat – Baroness
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0el3j5j021o.amp
Record-breaking number of women to enter Australian parliament
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05-05/record-number-women-elected-australian-parliament/105254048
Alberta Premier Smith says meeting with PM Carney a ‘positive first step’
https://www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/prairies_bc/alberta/alberta-premier-smith-says-meeting-with-pm-carney-a-positive-first-step/article_b315a49a-7c24-56cf-b760-99fae6b29683.html
Trump wants a baby boom. Here’s why a ‘baby bonus’ probably won’t help fertility rates
https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.7523545
