Still, these nagging problems should not overshadow the dramatic progress that women have made in recent decades.

ECONOMIST: Women and work

Unlike a subscription model, F2P players have no initial buy-in to keep them playing, no nagging guilt over not making use of that monthly fee.

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What is nagging Europe's political leaders is not the text, which they grumpily signed up to last year, but the difficulty they are having getting it ratified.

ECONOMIST: The European Union