Collections of journalism consistently fail to represent the contribution made by female journalists to newspapers and magazines, as if political analysis and tales of flak-jacketed derring-do are the only truly valid forms of the discipline. And yet women make up half of readers, and more than half of newspaper and magazine staff.By bringing together the best - the most influential, incisive, controversial, affecting, entertaining - pieces of journalism written by women, this anthology redresses this imbalance. Organized by theme, it also gives a sense of the massive changes that have taken place in women's lives since the beginning of the suffragette movement. Above all, this is a collection of superlative writing from the best women in the business, selected by the Sunday Times's most senior female editor.