Opinion
Views and opinion on the biggest stories of the day from the Editors at Marie Claire
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I’m Only 35, but I’ll Be Retired by the Time the UK Gender Pay Gap Closes
Millions of British women are effectively working almost 50 days a year for free
By Mischa Anouk Smith
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Brooklyn Beckham Doesn’t Owe Us an Explanation
Everyone is dissecting Brooklyn Beckham’s “nuclear” statement, but the real question isn’t what happened—it’s why we feel entitled to know.
By Mischa Anouk Smith
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The Problem With Calling Grok’s AI Sexual Abuse a ‘Trend’
How the language around Grok’s AI abuse minimises harm to women and lets platforms off the hook
By Mischa Anouk Smith
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Today Is the Perfect Day to Ditch Your New Year’s Resolutions
Happy ‘Quitter’s Day’ to all those who celebrate
By Mischa Anouk Smith
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The Mental Load, Motherhood, and the Secret Life of a Wife in Room 706
How love, motherhood, and responsibility combine to create a constant, often unseen, mental workload for women.
By Ellie Levenson
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I Hate Hosting Dinner Parties, but I Love Watching Fictional Parties Derail
Hating dinner parties as a child, Viola van de Sandt now finds joy in their chaos—at least on screen. From burned canapés to family confrontations, fictional parties reveal women’s transformation, independence, and self-discovery.
By Viola van de Sandt
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“I Miss My Family, but I’ll Never Speak to Them Again”: Six Women on Family Estrangement
What a ‘no-contact’ Christmas really feels like
By Mischa Anouk Smith
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Rage Bait Isn’t the Word of the Year We Want, But It’s the One We Deserve
From the Kardashians to Sydney Sweeney, Oxford’s 2025 word of the year explains why the internet is driving us all mad
By Mischa Anouk Smith
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The Caroline Flack Documentary Lays Bare the Brutal Ways Women Are Torn Down
Five years on, are we any kinder to women in the spotlight?
By Mischa Anouk Smith
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Sarah Pochin’s Comments About ‘Adverts Full of Black and Asian People’ Reveal a Troubling Backlash Against Diversity
Reform MP Sarah Pochin’s remarks about diversity in advertising have sparked outrage—and raised questions about how rhetoric once confined to the political fringes is entering the mainstream.
By Mischa Anouk Smith
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Smearing Virginia Giuffre: What New Allegations Against Prince Andrew Reveal About Power and Silence
Why smear campaigns by powerful men still work so well
By Mischa Anouk Smith
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Britain Has Its First Female Archbishop of Canterbury — So Why Did Some Headlines Name Her Husband Instead?
“We're still measuring women by who they're married to and whether they're mothers, not by what they've achieved.”
By Mischa Anouk Smith
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Yes, Instagram Is Ruining Your Holiday
If you went on holiday and didn’t post it, did it even happen?
By Mischa Anouk Smith
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I Left My Job Partly Because Of Painful Periods — Here’s Why We Need Menstrual Leave
Endometriosis, medical misogyny, and the fight for Menstrual Leave in the UK
By Chloe Laws
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I Thought the Fashion Industry Gave Me Body Issues—Turns Out It Was the 80s
Body positivity? Easier said than done when decades of diet culture still mess with your head.
By Ruth Crilly
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Inside Notting Hill Carnival: How It Connects Me to My Caribbean Heritage and Why It Must Survive
From child spectator to masquerader: Chanté Joseph shares her personal connection to Notting Hill Carnival
By Chanté Joseph
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I Grew Up Worshipping Carrie Bradshaw, But I'm Ready to Say Goodbye
I couldn’t help but wonder, what would we do without Carrie?
By Mischa Anouk Smith
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Kim Kardashian’s ‘Back to School’ Skims Drop Shows We’ve Still Got a Sexy Schoolgirl Problem
Can we stop dressing up girlhood for the male gaze already?
By Mischa Anouk Smith
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Diane Abbott is Proof That as a Black Woman, You Are Held to Higher Standards and Criticised More Harshly
It's no surprise so many black women support Diane Abbott — they know how it feels to be vilified
By Sheilla Mamona
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Oracle Cards Are the New Self-Care—But Is Online Spirituality Helping Anyone?
Full moon mantras, astrology make-up, aura nails, and WitchTok: welcome to the era of algorithmic enlightenment
By Mischa Anouk Smith
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TikTok Banned SkinnyTok, ‘Skniytok’ Quickly Took Its Place
RIP #SkinnyTok. Enter: ‘#Skniytok’
By Mischa Anouk Smith
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Donald Trump Is back in power—Why didn’t more people join the Women's March this year?
“I am feeling the fatigue and weight of the challenge ahead of us, when it feels like we have already been fighting for so long.”
By Mischa Anouk Smith
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Are Trending Sleep Divorces A Sign That Modern Life Is Making Us Too Tired to Be Together?
Peeling back the covers on TikTok’s solo sleeping obsession and what it says about intimacy in the age of burnout.
By Mischa Anouk Smith
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Lauren Sánchez’s Mega-Money Hen Do Sounded The Death Knell For Quiet Luxury
“Stealth Wealth”? Lauren Sánchez doesn’t know her.
By Mischa Anouk Smith
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How Do We Raise Our Kids in a Time of Misogyny and Intimate Image Abuse?
“We tend to ask more of schools when we perhaps need to ask more of ourselves”
By Amy Beashel
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Why is our generation obsessed with romanticising TV murderers?
By Jenny Proudfoot
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I was told I was too girly to be gay — When will society stop judging women on how we look?
Why femme invisibility is a feminist issue
By Roxy Bourdillon


