Here's a collection of the Georgia Straight's coverage of women-related issues, including women's rights, female health and sexuality, gender equality, feminism, sexism, violence against women, missing women, trailblazers and pioneers, mothers, and more.

For male-related subjects, visit our collection of coverage of men's issues.

For full coverage of queer-specific issues, visit our LGBT webpage.

Arts Features

Why Sarah Cooper is the pandemic’s breakout comic

Sep 23

Sarah Cooper is one of the few good things to come out of the pandemic.

Straight Talk

Filmmaker and author Michelle Kim alleges discrimination over Vancouver parking ticket during pregnancy

Sep 23

Michelle Kim was seven months pregnant when she was issued a parking violation ticket.

Finance

Financial planning shouldn't only be for the wealthy

Sep 22

Ruby Ubhi, a certified financial planner with Coast Capital Wealth Management, says a good strategy can work for anybody.

Movie Features

Jennifer Podemski: “It’s a full-time job to be the Indigenous person on a film set”

Sep 22

A new wave of Indigenous media is cresting.

VIFF

VIFF review: Filipina caregiver is drawn into domestic unease in supernatural suspense Sanzaru

Sep 20

When a caregiver moves into an isolated home in rural Texas, she begins to wonder if there’s another presence in the house.

News Features

What a feminist post-COVID economic recovery looks like

Sep 20

Women have borne the brunt of the economic losses during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Movie Reviews

Vancouver Taiwanese Film Festival: Nina Wu pushed to the edge in patriarchal film industry

Sep 19

At times, this Taiwanese psychological drama feels like the creepy 1980 U.S. film The Stunt Man, on other occasions, it's reminiscent of the 2010 dance thriller Black Swan.

Arts Notes

Rachel Aberle to become new artistic director of Vancouver's youth-oriented Green Thumb Theatre

Sep 17

After over three decades and numerous accolades, Green Thumb Theatre artistic director Patrick McDonald is stepping down.

VIFF

VIFF review: West Coast–based Monkey Beach brings Eden Robinson's Indigenous mystery novel to the screen

Sep 17

In this supernatural mystery, Lisa returns from Vancouver to her Haisla family in Kitamaat Village to heed haunting premonitions.

VIFF

VIFF review: Violation shows us the horrible cost of revenge

Sep 16

Violation is a movie about a woman working her way through trauma as methodically and horribly as possible.

Commentary

Why we need universal child care in Canada

Sep 16

The failure of policymakers to prioritize child care as a public good has come at an inordinate cost to women.

VIFF

VIFF review: Tracey Deer’s Beans finds its hero coming of age during the Oka crisis

Sep 16

This drama about a kid trying to understand why everything around her is charged with violence and rage.