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[...] digital technology is becoming systematically important, much in the same way as finance. As the digital economy is an increasingly pervasive infrastructure for the contemporary economy, its collapse would be economically devastating. Lastly, because of its dynamism, the digital economy is pr…

Ultimately, all Sheryl Sandberg's vision of leaning in offers is an OK job, and the opportunity to see your children at the same time. In terms of ambition, it's sorely lacking. Both aims are meagre and quite frankly dull, if that's all a dream amounts to. Fighting for equality is often misundersto…

[...] The obsession with whether or not women identify as feminists assumes that this is a reasonable measure of how many people believe in the general aims and objectives of the ideology. But it is a preoccupation that relies on identity labels more than any analysis of shared values. And any iden…

Obsession with lifestyle--whether aspects of mainstream culture are feminist--turns attention back on the self rather than women's position in society and attendant life chances. As Linda R. Hirschman puts it:

"Choice feminism", the shadowy remnant of the original movement, tells women that th…

[...] Lord Cromer was particularly keen that veiled Egyptian women should de-jab, arguing that Islam's monstrous mistreatment of women was holding Egypt back from entering the enlightened and idealised version of Western civilisation that bastion of women's rights Cromer claimed to inhabit. Back ho…