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Why Work? Why 50:50? … It’s Good For Your Kids
Often mornings before work are a pressure point, where the tensions between home and work are front and centre. On those morning when we rush to get ourselves presentable and our kids ready and…
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The ‘Best’ Leadership Books are Written By…?
You may have already noticed that relatively few books on leadership are written by women. And not just books for women but leadership books for everyone written by women. I was searching Blinkist (a…
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Fantastic Podcasts for Women, Work, and Leadership
One of the keys to sustaining ourselves while navigating through our days carrying the added baggage of gender bias at work and in our wider lives, is to get active support from our women…
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How Power Can Operate in a Workplace
I was reading the Power Threat Meaning Framework published the British Psychological Society’s Division of Clinical Psychology and authored by Lucy Johnstone, Mary Boyle and others the other day. Find it here if you’re interested. I…
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Role Models for STEM Careers: Four Ideas to Inspire the Girls in Your Life
We all know that women are underrepresented in the STEM fields (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) and great efforts are being made to encourage girls to participate. The challenge is even greater when their well-meaning…
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To Take the Minutes or Not To Take the Minutes. Six Strategies to Skirt Around Interfering Gender Biases
Women get asked more than men, and volunteer more, to do undervalued and time consuming tasks at work especially the ‘office housework’. One perhaps easily overlooked example of office housework is taking the meeting…
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Welcome BREAKGLASS Coaching
Two years ago… … I found myself crying in anger in the car on the way to work listening to a podcast about the state of women’s rights in the world. This was not…
