Many women coming out of an abusive marriage have not worked for years. Not by choice, but because working was not permitted, or because it was made impossible by refusing childcare, refusing transport, or arriving at the workplace often…
Most advice about surveillance stops at the phone. That was reasonable ten years ago. Now a woman can leave the phone at home, take a car, and still be watched, and the devices doing it are cheap, small, and…
The belief that a lawyer is unaffordable stops more women than the actual cost does. Some of the best routes are free, several are cheap, and knowing which is which is most of the problem. A second point worth…
A protection order is a court order telling somebody to stop. It is one of the very few tools that changes a man's behaviour by changing his risk, rather than by asking him to be different. It can require…
You hear it. Most weeks, or some weeks, through a wall or across a compound. Shouting, then something else, then a child crying, then quiet. And then the ordinary paralysis: it is not your business, you might be wrong…
The conversation with a new employer usually starts with them bracing for a request they will have to refuse. Lower the bar, take somebody who cannot really do the work, absorb a level of disruption, treat it as charity…
Home has doors and a workplace has other people. The journey between them has neither, and it is also the most predictable thing most of us do — the same route, the same hour, the same bus stop, five…
Polygamous marriage is lawful in Nigeria under customary and Islamic law, and a very large number of women live in one. This article is not an argument about the institution. It is about a set of mechanisms that appear…
Fear of what happens next stops more women from contacting a service than the abuse itself. Not knowing whether you will be reported, lectured, put on a list or told to leave your husband is enough to make most…
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