My ambition is to empower all women to have orgasms

Indonesia needs to scrap demeaning virginity tests, says campaigner Firliana Purwanti. Sexual liberation is the path to equality

What can Britain’s feminist activists learn from abroad?

Women face tough struggles in the UK – so it’s easy to forget that these are just part of a wealth of feminist campaigning worldwide

Yoko Ono and Madonna both fight ageism – in radically different ways

Ono and Madonna have both felt the sharp edge of the ageism stick recently. Is it too much to hope that an artist can be loved for who she is?

Ketamine control plan condemned as potential disaster for world’s rural poor

Repeated Chinese attempts to tighten controls on drug described as ‘David and Goliath struggle’ between poor and rich countries

Shopping vouchers ‘most effective’ way to help pregnant women stop smoking

One-fifth kicked the habit before giving birth when receiving financial incentives in a Cambridge university study, more than twice the rate using traditional services

Women’s bodies can’t perform magic. Someone please tell Republicans

One congressman this week thought that if women swallow pills, they end up in their vagina. The GOP still knows nothing about female anatomy.

So most women don’t wash every day – what’s the big deal?

Our bodies are still more pampered than our ancestors’. But it is a shame the time for personal grooming is being squeezed out of our busy lives

If a woman isn’t interested in sex, the problem quite possibly isn’t with her

A lack of desire for a particular partner can’t be cured with a pill. Sometimes, it takes a little work

It’s not Cindy Crawford’s job to fix our Photoshop culture

When someone else’s photos leak without their permission, it’s an invasion of privacy. Why not this time?

Woolly boobs: laughable, sobering and surprisingly useful

Residents of one village on the Isle of Lewis are clubbing together to knit 250 brightly coloured breasts for use in a new government campaign