Johnson’s 50:50 target for women in parliament. An important pledge – but Conservatives should avoid quotas.

It would undermine the Conservative ideal of self-determination. Furthermore, it’s “equality of opportunity” that policies need to focus on.

The media coverage of Symonds reeks of sexism

Newspapers have called her the “Duchess of Downing Street” and suggested she formed a “crew” with other women to see off Lee Cain.

Radical: It’s time the Women and Equalities Committee was replaced

It has shown itself incapable of advocating for the one group specifically named in its title – women – and is too emblematic of identity politics.

Radical: Our top five reads for the summer on gender-related issues

As regular readers of this column might expect, they’re not cheerful page-turners. But they may well change your life.

Caroline Nokes: Spare a thought for women. Male ministers have forgotten we exist in their lockdown easing plans.

While barbers, beers and football are deemed priorities for reopening, female-dominated businesses, like nail salons, have been left in limbo.

Radical: A guide to trans-speak

Some of the simplest words in the English language have become points of contention when describing identity.

What does the data say on women’s advancement in the workplace?

A new survey of 9,000 professionals sheds light on female advancement at work. What are the obstacles to a better salary?

ConservativeHome’s leadership election panel. “The next Tory leader’s task is to fashion a home for “decent populists”

Each week, our panel of John O’Sullivan, Rachel Wolf, Trevor Phillips, Tim Montgomerie and Marcus Roberts will analyse and assess what’s happening.

A cry of rage against the BBC

Robin Aitken, who worked for the Corporation for 25 years, accuses it of propagating liberalism and suppressing conservatism behind a pretend impartiality.

The beauty of Scruton

The campaign against him is driven by the knowledge that May agrees with his views on design – and fear that the Government will act on them.

Josephine Hemmens: Transgender discrimination is wrong. But righting it mustn’t put people born as women in danger.

This process is clearly open to abuse from violent males, many of whom will go to any lengths to reach their victims.

Garvan Walshe: To win back young voters, the Conservative Party should make feminism central to its platform

As Cameron once reached new voters by focusing on the environment, so the leader after May should take up the fight for gender equality.

Ministers appear to have assumed gender self-identification would be an uncontroversial change – they were wrong

New polling shows levels of opposition to the Government’s proposed reform well above what many campaigners had expected, and across social and political divides.

Thatcher is “full of wonder and freshness”, but at the end starts sobbing

Caroline Slocock says the first woman Prime Minister, whose downfall she witnessed, deserves the admiration rather than the contempt of feminists.

George Maggs: Modern feminism is a gendered form of reconstituted socialism

Earlier this month, however, when it emerged that another rape gang had been operating with impunity, this time in Telford, the silence was deafening.