On Wednesday, 8 March, Innovate UK announced the winners of its annual ‘Women in Innovation’ award. Now in its sixth year, the initiative recognises outstanding contributions made by leading female entrepreneurs in the UK. Amongst this year’s cohort of winners, five were from Scotland, with ideas including a cutting-edge mobile foot scanner to prevent amputations […]
Content warning: references to sexual violence and abuse, homophobia I didn’t write an editorial for our LGBTQ+ history month print edition as I didn’t have anything I especially wanted to write at the time, but I was scrolling through TikTok the other day and came across a statistic that shocked me so much I had […]
The median age to graduate university in the UK is 22 years old, which for our grandparents’s generation was the average age for a woman to have her first child. Although we have seen generational shifts in heteronormative expectations and norms, there still seems to be subliminal pressures for 21st century women to marry, have […]
‘No, I really don’t think you understand, no really you’re not getting it.’ ‘Well, actually, that’s not the correct approach’ ‘It’s alright if can’t comprehend this concept, most people can’t.’ This female engineering student told The Student that these were things said her by her male counterpart, here at the University of Edinburgh. She did […]
Historically, female literacy rates have been disproportionately low, and many women were forced to use pseudonyms if they sought to publish their work. Nevertheless, English literature would not be as it is today without the vital contributions of women. Though I cannot possibly cover all of these, this article is a tribute to some of […]
Virginia Woolf convincingly argues that a woman needs money and a room of her own if she is to compose fiction in her 1929 essay A Room of One’s Own. This text, displaying radical feminist themes, offered and continues to provide young female readers with hope in a brutally patriarchal world built by men for […]
Every March, Women’s History Month is celebrated to commemorate the accomplishments of women across the years. Women are consistently omitted from history and overlooked in our education system in favour of more prominent male figures of their time. From innovation in science and technology, to trailblazing political change, women’s accomplishments across the years are endless […]
What does it mean to be Transgender? For each person, it has an individual and emotional meaning. For me, to be transgender is to be beautiful. It is to be truthful, and it is to be self-aware. As a young transgender woman, I grew up often with a disconnect between my brain and my body. […]