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 great app which provides bite-sized summaries…
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 friends and peers and wider village.…
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 was struck by how the examination…
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 school doesn’t also take a critical…
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 minutes. I was asked to take…
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 the first time. The thought was…
