A University of Portsmouth project aiming to improve skills and employment opportunities for local women will be running a series of 12 workshops for 18-35 year old women in the city. S&C Community Reporter Andrew [… read more ]
Sarah Cheverton talks to PhD student Eugénie Le Bigot about her ongoing research into how women feel about and use public spaces in Caen, Rouen and Portsmouth. Eugénie Le Bigot is asking Portsmouth women to [… read more ]
Portsmouth is celebrating International Women’s Day with a week of events around the city. Get the dates in your diary, get your tickets and get involved! Tuesday 6th March, 7:30pm, FREE, Eldon Building, Winston Churchill [… read more ]
40 Days for Life is a religious anti-abortion campaign that protests outside clinics providing abortions in the hope of changing the minds of women scheduled for, or considering, the procedure. Between 27th September and 5th [… read more ]
The week of 11-17 September was the first ever World Childless Week. Portsmouth writer Annie Kirby makes an impassioned plea for increased social awareness of people who are childless through no choice of their own. [… read more ]
S&C regular Matt Wingett explores the real-life origin story of one of DC Comic’s most recently reinvented superheroes and finds a surprising – and liberating – history. So far this summer I’ve been to see Wonder [… read more ]
With the General Election and more recently the offer of apprenticeships from a government minister, the Solent WASPI campaign against women’s state pension inequality has had a lot to deal with. Shelagh Simmons and Carolyne [… read more ]
Almost 1 in 10 women in the UK are diagnosed with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome – why don’t we know more about it? Portsmouth-based blogger and broadcaster Laura Mitchell finds out why. In August 2016, I [… read more ]
Although the contraceptive coil is no longer common in many countries, it remains popular in Britain. Portsmouth-based student Isabelle Bilton recounts the experience of having one fitted in a Portsmouth hospital in uncompromising detail. My [… read more ]
Five months after the general election, many – including Rosy Bremer – are still reeling from the result. Ever since the election, it’s as if the country is going through the aftermath of a bad teenage [… read more ]
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