The Gender Pay Gap, #MeToo, transgender issues. Feminism has its fair share of headlines in today's world. But with some feminists claiming that gender means nothing, and others claiming empowerment through celebrating their exaggeratedly feminine bodies, there is not much consensus about where this movement is going.
Journalist Ella Whelan questions whether we need feminism at all, and gives her take on where women's politics is going.
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Ella Whelan is a freelance journalist, commentator and author of What Women Want: Fun, Freedom and an End to Feminism. She is the former assistant editor at spiked.
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