Todd Akin

This week brings to a close the worst Women’s Month ever and it will help us to forget the humiliations that characterised it, writes Verashni Pillay.

From Khanyi Mbau to Zuma’s take on single women, to a pastor who blamed Marikana on feminists. Verashni Pillay summarises the worst Women’s Month yet.

United States congressman Todd Akin, under fire for controversial remarks on abortion and rape, insists he will not leave the Missouri Senate race.

A Republican Senate hopeful has sparked outrage by suggesting that "legitimate rape" rarely results in pregnancy due to a woman’s biological defences.