An independent weekly has run a special edition in which the entire newspaper was written by women.

Camden New Journal editor Richard Osley gave way to assistant editor Anna Lamche for the ‘Not Just One Day’ edition.

The issue came out the day after International Women’s Day this month, in a bid to highlight the fact that women’s voices and stories “are still not being heard” despite the annual event.

In an editorial inside the paper, Anna explained the New Journal’s stance.

She wrote: “on International Women’s Day, social media is awash with corporate messages posted by brands encouraging us to ‘celebrate diversity and empower women’ or ‘celebrate the beauty of diversity, the power of inclusion’.

“Such messaging is inevitable, and usually well-intentioned – but it is also indicative of the discourse surrounding the fight for women’s equality which so often feels divorced from the key factor shaping many women’s lives: class.

“The recent report published by the Camden Women’s Forum makes for grim reading.

“The commission responsible for the report spoke to 100 local women and returned with stories of mothers losing weight because they can only afford to feed their children; women unable to return to work because of the prohibitive costs of childcare; and women working punishing, insecure jobs through the night so they can see their children off to school in the morning.

“A decade of austerity has hurt us all, but the dismantling of the welfare system constitutes a particularly sustained assault on single mothers.

“We have witnessed what Bell Hooks, the feminist theorist, calls the ‘feminisation of poverty’ as women – particularly women of colour and working-class women – disproportionately shoulder the burden of keeping their families warm, fed and clothed.”

Anna added: “Having women in positions of power in a system that continues to perpetuate social and economic violence against less fortunate women does not constitute real progress.

“Class must feature in any meaningful discussion about women’s rights, and true diversity and empowerment can only be achieved when it is accompanied by wide-reaching social and economic change.

“In Camden, that starts with offering women better pay in secure, flexible work, as well as education and training opportunities and affordable childcare and housing.”