Think women, think retail. Women do 83% of the shopping and buy 96% of beauty products, 93% of food, 92% of holidays, 60% of all new cars and 55% of home computers. They buy the bulk of petrol and small electrical goods and not surprisingly, Paco Underhill, the expert on...

Prior to his election, David Cameron pledged to give a third of his first government's jobs to women. Following the election, his Cabinet of 23 had five women, a total of 22%. Now, following his reshuffle, there are four women in a larger cabinet of 29, producing a total of...

Just a week ago, Valerie Trierweiler, the current partner of Francois Hollande, took up her pen to write about a woman. This was Rosalind Franklin, the person responsible for showing for the first time, through her expert photographs, the double-helix structure of DNA. The translation of Brenda Maddox's biography into...

Who doesn't remember Labour's mantra 'education education education'? On International Women's Today, it is enlightening to see where women fare in the beacon of UK education that is Higher Education.

Last week, the UK's Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) published statistics offering a glimpse into the staffing of Higher Education...

By now, you will have bought your Christmas cards and will be settling down to enjoy the cards around you. Have you ever thought about why you select the cards that you do? And why other people choose theirs?

I have just completed a study with Dr Gabor Horvath of...

Tonight will decide the winner of this year's BBC Sports Personality of the Year. You might think that with a 27-strong jury, the list would be a fair reflection of Britain's greatest sporting talent. However, the absence of any women on the list has already raised eyebrows and findings from...