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Pragya Agarwal

@DrPragyaAgarwal

Dr Pragya Agarwal is a behavioural and data scientist, author, speaker and founder of research think-tank The 50 Percent Project

<p>This is not an isolated incident</p>
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The two-word slur that tells us everything we need to know about Trump

<p>It is immensely refreshing for a man to openly admit that he does not expect his wife to have ‘maintenance sex’ with him </p>
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Robbie Williams’s sex confession has just done women a massive favour

<p>Meghan has already seen backlash from the media and general public for not conforming to the passivity and subservience associated with royal women</p>
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Why criticise Meghan for how she behaved at the Queen’s funeral?

<p>I do not want my daughter to grow up with these expectations, or believe that her self-worth is linked to how much she is liked or appreciated by others</p>
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It’s time we stopped raising our girls to be people pleasers

<p>I paid taxes even when I was barely making enough to live as a single parent (Ian West/PA)</p>
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I’m Indian like Rishi Sunak’s wife – but I didn’t need to be non-dom

<p>Campion calls her comments ‘thoughtless’ as if they come from a place without thought and therefore, she cannot be held responsible for them</p>
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Jane Campion’s quip about the Williams sisters is peak white feminism

<p>We joked that we were becoming slower and stupider, but secretly felt aggrieved at how the previously joyful game now seemed frustrating</p>
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Wordle has become pretentious – it’s not much fun anymore

<p>Jimmy Carr has been called out for a joke he made about Gypsies </p>
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No, Jimmy Carr, your joke about Gypsies is not funny

<p>As soon as people started sharing their results in the form of grey, yellow, green grids on Twitter, there was a backlash</p>
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Are you a Wordle ‘hater’? There’s a psychological reason for that

<p>Kyle Rittenhouse enters the courtroom to hear the verdicts in his trial at the Kenosha County Courthouse. </p>
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No trial is free from bias – that includes Kyle Rittenhouse’s

<p>‘Saville was routinely abusing patients between the ages of five and 75’ </p>
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We don’t need TV dramas about child abusers like Jimmy Savile

<p>‘Absence of a smile has a greater impact on how a woman is perceived, as compared to how a man is perceived’ </p>
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All these references to Emma Raducanu’s smile make me uneasy

<p>‘Women’s sexuality or desire is never placed on par with that of men’s desires’</p>
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No woman should ever have to have ‘maintenance sex’ with her husband

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No woman should ever have to have ‘maintenance sex’ with her husband

<p>‘Women’s sexuality or desire is never placed on par with that of men’s desires’</p>
<p>‘Women have always been castigated for their sexuality – whereas men are excused as ‘boys will be boys’’</p>
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There would be a different backlash if Matt Hancock was a woman MP

<p>Motherland is a British sitcom set in London about the challenges of parenthood</p>
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The problem with Motherland

<p>France could pass a bill to ban under-18s from wearing Muslim headscarves and veils</p>
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Colonial mindset is behind France’s latest attempt to ban the hijab

<p>Just 57 per cent of Bame respondents to the Royal Society for Public Health survey in December said they were likely to accept the vaccine</p>
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Ethnic minorities are vaccine-reluctant after years of discrimination

<p>Just 57 per cent of Bame respondents to the Royal Society for Public Health survey in December said they were likely to accept the vaccine</p>
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Ethnic minorities are vaccine-reluctant after years of discrimination

Lifestyle

We need to talk about the digital divide

Dr Rosena Allin-Khan asks a coronavirus-related question to Matt Hancock, the health secretary, in the House of Commons on 5 May 2020
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What Hancock’s remark to Allin-Khan says about tone policing women

Priti Patel’s announcement follows mounting pressure on the government to introduce emergency measures to tackle the surge in domestic abuse incidents in the wake of the government’s lockdown
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Priti Patel’s non-apology was designed to make you feel responsible

Related video: NHS staff conduct Covid-19 tests at Chessington drive-through centre
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Healthcare bias must be addressed to protect people of colour

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For interracial couples, it's clear why Meghan and Harry really left

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Infertility campaigns treat women of colour like we don't need support

Lorraine Kelly’s Change and Check campaign video for Breast Cancer Awareness and ITV
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Women of colour deserve to be included in breast cancer campaigns

If you don’t believe that xenophobia and racism exists in this country, look no further that BNP rallies
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Your ‘jokes’ about Indian people aren’t funny – they’re racist

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Infertility campaigns treat women of colour like we don't need support

Lorraine Kelly’s Change and Check campaign video for Breast Cancer Awareness and ITV
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Women of colour deserve to be included in breast cancer campaigns

If you don’t believe that xenophobia and racism exists in this country, look no further that BNP rallies
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Your ‘jokes’ about Indian people aren’t funny – they’re racist

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Citizens Advice’s racist training on Bame communities is unacceptable

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Citizens Advice’s racist training on Bame communities is unacceptable

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