Gender Equality At Work? Ask These 5 Questions Now!
Posted on September 30th, 2024 by Jane
Do male values still dominate the culture of your work place? Is your organisation gender bilingual? Read on and find out!
Seriously, Men Need To Talk About ‘The Vagina Business’
Posted on September 22nd, 2024 by Jane
Actually, everyone with an interest in equality and fairness should talk about The Vagina Business. Or maybe just an interest in business. Or in making money. And how about not wanting to see women suffer and die needlessly? Yes, everyone needs to read The Vagina Business. I use the word ‘seriously’ in the title with intent. Women die because men recoil from the word ‘vagina’. Even in 2024 it’s still a *taboo word. The word describing a part of the
Exploring Loneliness – A New Course
Posted on August 30th, 2023 by Jane
Exploring Loneliness This is a brand new course and i’d love you to come and trial it with me. Exploring Loneliness. Loneliness is a subjective feeling and has nothing to do with how many people we know, how much company we are in each day, how adorable we are, etc. It’s not a personal failing – it’s a fact of how we live. At various points in our lives we all experience it. What Will Happen on Exploring Loneliness? Well,
Have You Seen Barbie? What Did You Think?
Posted on August 9th, 2023 by Jane
Have You Seen Barbie? I have to be honest, I did not want to see Barbie. And yet I went. Did I fall prey to the relentless promotion of it? In a way, yes. But in my defence Greta Gerwig was involved so I thought just how bad could it be? Also, I am a Gender Equality freak, I mean specialist, so almost everyone I encountered was asking me if I had seen it. I almost had to go for
300 Years For Women’s Blue Equality?
Posted on June 7th, 2023 by Jane
If you’re in London do take a look at the blue plaques dotted around. If you’re really lucky you might even see a woman honoured in this way. But if you’re looking for women’s blue equality with the men you’ll need to stroll around for about another three hundred years or so. So said English Heritage at the unveiling of the plaque pictured above, of Princess Sophia Duleep Singh. She was an extraordinary woman and deserves commemoration. And so do
Mansplaining? Just Ask A Man, He’ll Tell You
Posted on February 14th, 2023 by Jane
Mansplaining? If you’re in any doubt as to what that is where have you been? It’s the art (It’s not an art -I’m being sarcastic), of men correcting women in a patronising way. Even when that woman very obviously knows more than the man speaking. Rebecca Solnit wrote about it in 2008 when she published her book ‘Men Explain Things To Me’ but it had been around long before that. Deliciously in the book she recounts a tale of a
