FT Series

Women in 2018: the change makers

In 1918, women were granted the right to vote in Britain. A century later, we hear from some of today’s trailblazers: in politics, the arts, science, business and sport

#MeToo in China: ‘I am really very scared of losing’

In bringing her case against a high-profile TV star, ‘Xianzi’ is battling sexism, censorship and political pressure

Keeley Hawes on ‘Bodyguard’, #MeToo and the pay gap

Acclaimed for her performance as a hardline home secretary, the actor says she’s ‘slightly reeling’ from the hit show’s success

Nadia Murad on surviving Isis and telling truth to power  

The Nobel Peace Prize winner on her campaign to rebuild Sinjar and resettle the Yazidi population

The pro-choice activists who changed Ireland

The campaigners behind the repeal of Ireland’s abortion law on how they won a decades-long battle

Obi Felten: ‘You can’t cast half the population as villains’

The tech executive on gender balance in Silicon Valley and how she makes ‘moonshots’ a reality at X

Chef Samin Nosrat: ‘I’m, like, where are the women?’

Her Netflix show ‘Salt Fat Acid Heat’ is helping upend the macho hierarchy of food experts

More from this Series

Alex Scott: ‘Ian Wright was my hero. Now I talk on TV with him’

One of women’s football’s early stars, the broadcaster is now breaking the mould off the pitch

Nobel winner Donna Strickland on women in science

‘I didn’t have a single female professor at graduate school in the mid-1980s and few female classmates too’

Constance Wu on how ‘Crazy Rich Asians’ became a movement

The star of the year’s hit comedy continues to call out Hollywood’s sexism and racism

MP Jess Phillips on fighting to change behaviour at Westminster

‘Every MP implicated in sexual harassment, bullying and aggression is still an MP’

Writer Sisonke Msimang on the positive power of South Africa’s anger

‘A new generation is asking tougher questions about reconciliation and justice’

Sandhya Menon: ‘Due process in India is a failure’

The journalist on India’s #MeToo and how a dam of silence collapsed

Masih Alinejad on challenging Iran’s compulsory hijab laws

A Q&A with the founder of the ‘My Stealthy Freedom’ campaign

The poet Hester Pulter: hear her voice after 400 years

‘Ask yourself how many millions of women’s voices in history were never heard at all’