'Feminist fightback' conference

A friend of my sister's is helping to organise a feminist conference in London on Saturday 21st October. I don't know much about it but the agenda looks interesting:

http://www.fightback.org.uk/

In France women are no political animal

Next year French presidential election is going to be fascinating. For the first time ever a woman is topping the polls. You probably don't think it's such an achievement but very very few women enter politics. Why: because in France in order to be a politician (or homme politique) you need to be over 50 and a man. And isn't it symptomatic that in English you say politicians and in French you say hommes politiques?! (there isn't any femmes politiques).

Interesting article in the Times on the choice British-born Muslim girls make to wear the veil.

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