Equality

The University of Nottingham is set to welcome the HeForShe campaign to its University Park campus on Wednesday 30th September with the inaugural #GetFree tour. Launched in 2014 by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon and UN Women Goodwill Ambassador Emma Watson, HeForShe aims to create a global conversation about gender...

Feminism. Perhaps one of the most misused and distorted terms in the English dictionary, but also one of the most powerful.  As a woman at university, living, breathing and learning among some of the country’s most educated young people, why is it this is still a term to be...

Equality is very much a hot topic in today’s society, highlighted daily by the media. Whether it’s homophobia, racism or sexism, the modern world is generally conscious of these pressing matters. Global sport has the platform to tackle these deep-seated cultural issues but predominantly fails to impact the sports-fandom....

Feminism has been gaining more and more prominence in mainstream media due to the success of projects such as Laura Bates’s Everyday Sexism and the popularisation of feminist writers like Caitlin Moran. Despite this, the movement towards equality seems to be constantly hindered by incidents of lad culture, most...

August 18th 2014 was a huge day for women’s rugby with the England team lifting the World Cup after four unsuccessful finals in a row. A long awaited title was added to their existing one from 1994. However, this was not just a World Cup win for women’s rugby,...