"I refuse to be a footnote": the women who transformed war reporting
Rebecca West, Martha Gellhorn and Mickey Hahn covered near every conflict of the 20th century. They invented the literary journalism we know today.
20th century
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"All work is sh*t" or how anti-Girl Boss feminism might have got it right
In the 1970s, Wages for Housework demanded pay for cooking and cleaning without any illusions about making it in the workplace
EP 03: The Wages for Housework movement, with Emily Callaci
“They say it is love. We say it is unwaged work.”
The greatest filmmaker you've never heard of
She was one of the founders of cinema. She ran two of the world's biggest film studios and directed more than 600 films. You've heard of Lumière, Méliès, Gaumont or Pathé. Why not of her?
EP 01: The long history of women's paid work, with Victoria Bateman
Women didn't ruin the workplace. They've always been there.
Jiu-jitsuing suffragettes, nuns hard done by and the first women's football match
A women's history guided tour on London's Suffragette line
Who were the French women celebrated in the Olympics opening ceremony?
Whom we choose to put on a pedestal says a lot about our culture. The world over, public space is still dominated by male imagery.
