Traditional theologies in the Abrahamic faiths have reinforced the idea of a binary world where the male and female should be strictly segregated.
Category: Inspiring Womxn
The Need for Women in Leadership
Clearly, it is not a lack of skills or qualifications that lead to the lack of women in high-decision making levels. So, what is it?
Who runs the world? Girls. Who runs Belarus? Girls!
Harvard professor Erica Chenoweth says that having women assume a prominent role in demonstrations increases the chance of success.
The Wall of Silence: why we should be talking more about pregnancy loss
By passing judgement on the way someone grieves, we are then also policing their behaviour after a traumatic event.
A Step in the Right Direction: Female Scientists are Finally Getting Credit for their Contributions
All of these women helped shape the world we live in today.
The Evolution of Women War Correspondents since World War II
These hidden figures of the great wars have contributed much more than you can image to History.
“I am Speaking!”
Welcome to the Clandestine’s new column, Children of the Patriarchy! Every other Wednesday we will post a column on anything and everything patriarchy related. Whilst most of us are already painfully aware of the patriarchal structure surrounding us, we often do not realise how deeply rooted its effects are. That’s why we are here! Every…
Feminine AND Powerful: Can Women be Both?
You may be thinking at this point, is this really important and worth talking about? The answer is no, what a female politician chooses to wear really should not be something worth commenting on. Yet it is.
Examining the Past, Present and Future of International Development; An Interview with Lorriann Robinson
Areeshya Thevamanohar is a second Year Politics students at King’s. Growing up in Malaysia, and then moving to London, she hopes to keep exploring the many conflicting views that have shaped how gender is treated in all walks of life. [Featured Image: Lorriann Robinson herself] Lorriann Robinson began her career as an event and research…
Women in Academia: Virginia Woolf: ‘A room of one’s own’
Women in Academia is a reading group initiative by the Women & Politics society created to highlight women in (surprise) academia, by reading academic texts written by women in humanities and discussing them on a bi-weekly basis. Last week we discussed Virginia Woolf’s extended essay ‘’A Room of One’s Own’’, a work which is based…
Women in Academia: Carol Ann Duffy
Women in Academia is a reading group initiative by the Women & Politics society created to highlight women in (surprise) academia, by reading academic texts written by women in humanities and discussing them on a bi-weekly basis. Last Wednesday we had our first reading group of 2020! This year our focus is to incorporate a…
The Glass Cliff & the Election of Sanna Marin
Francesca Verge is a first year International Relations student at KCL. She loves music, her dog and is interested in languages, having grown up in a multicultural family. She hopes to help the empowerment of women around the world, and was inspired by a high school anthropology class on gender theory. [Featured Image: A person…