What a Donald Trump presidency means for women and girls. "Nobody has more respect for women than I do," Donald Trump told voters at the first presidential debate.
With a Trump presidency on the cards, women and girls should brace themselves for his next four years in the White House. With a Republican-led senate and house, the real estate mogul turned president has what some have described as a blank cheque to push his policies through the Oval Office. The biggest threat is to Roe V Wade, a 1973 law which guarantees women the right to an abortion in all 50 states. The threat comes in the form of who he appoints as the next supreme court justice, filling in the spot left vacant by the late Antonin Scalia. If Mr Trump appoints a second justice - three of the judges are aged 78 and older - that could lead to a conservative majority of justices, and a reversal of a decades-old law. Although he has avoided the question of Roe V Wade directly thus far, he has made his pro-life stance clear. Play Video Close.
Key drivers. Trend impacts. 2015 Beauty Takeback: Feminism and the Beauty Industry Let’s make 2015 the year we take back our beauty.
Why? Because only 4 percent of women consider themselves beautiful and it is time for us to raise that number. In our culture, we are told that we are supposed to look a certain way in order to be beautiful. We are told that we are beautiful exactly as we are. We are shamed for caring about how we look, and shamed for not caring enough. Beauty is officially a feminist issue. The Women’s Liberation Movement did it’s best to call to question the double standards and injustices imposed on women — and the people who perpetrate them. The time has come for us to take our beauty power back. We need to be informed so that we can make informed choices. If I’m unsure about a product I’ll check its Skin Deep rating provided by the Environmental Working Group. I always check the ingredient list for every makeup, skincare or haircare product I purchase.
The lack of regulation within the cosmetics industry is truly despicable. Let this fact sink in. How do we move beyond clickbait feminism? Feminism is a bigger buzzword than ever in the media right now.
But with brands capitalising on the popularity of female empowerment to sell products, artists lauded as ‘feminists’ simply by identifying as female, and women in bands still discussed as ‘female musicians’ (as if the default gender for a respected musician is male), it seems a pretty conflicted time to identify as a feminist. On the one hand, the spotlight is on gender equality more than ever. But on the other, the focus on feminist issues such as #FreeTheNipple can seem cosmetic, surface-level, or even aesthetic, while women still struggle with oppression in their day-to-day lives. Understandably, the women who contributed to the rise of fourth-wave feminism are pissed about all of this. Two organisations that have championed female empowerment from the beginning are BabyFace and Skinny Girl Diet. “The feminist agenda is being spread. BabyFace: We want to create more spaces for women to operate in.
Women free bleed outside parliament to protest tampon tax. Women are lucky.
Every month, after a killer onset of cramps, migraines and psycho hormones, we get a period. That's five to seven glorious days where we bleed uncontrollably out of our vaginas, and indulge in some sensuous tampon usage – which, in case you weren't aware, is a seriously indulgent experience. Only it isn't. In reality, tampons are a very essential part of being a woman – though it's the former picture that's being painted by the UK government. According to them, tampons and sanitary items are “luxuries”, which means women have to pay a five per cent levy on all the products (aka the “tampon tax”).
It's a bizarre and backward policy, and one that was protested this weekend by Charlie Edge and Ruth Howarth. “They're not luxury items, anymore than jaffa cakes, edible cake decorations, exotic meats or any other number of things currently not taxed as luxury items”, Edge explained. “This isn’t just ‘three girls outside parliament with blood stains’,” she added.