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Tweet The trouble with commuting is that on those days when you don’t get a seat you have half an hour to stand and ponder the stranger things in life I’ve been thinking about housework and how the two halves of the population seem to view mess / dirt / the need for cleaning through [...] Tweet I’m going to neatly step around the political issues surrounding Baroness Thatcher – this isn’t about politics It also isn’t really about whether she was or wasn’t a feminist – certainly the internet seems fairly inflamed with whether or not she properly was a card-carrying feminist or not What you can’t get away from [...] Tweet A work friend of mine went home after a client dinner we’d hosted and told his wife how I had made a joke suggesting that since we had no table plan we sat boy-girl-boy-girl – his bemused wife asked why that was funny My friend explained that in a room of 22 people, I [...] Tweet I can only speak for the women of my acquaintance but talk to any group of them and each can run off a list as long as your arm of incidences of casual sexism – small, irritating things that happen every single little day and that you brush off because, taken alone, they don’t [...] 
Tweet Another week, another woman decides to step up and tell women how they need to change themselves to get ahead Sheryl Sandberg has waded into the debate around why there are not more women at senior corporate levels by suggesting that women need to stop leaning back from careers and lean right in and [...] Tweet I’m currently spending much more time commuting – I’ve a new project which adds a long tube journey to my usual daily trip and the unfortunate side effect of this extra bit, along with the lack of a seat, is that I get much more time to stand up close to my fellow passengers [...] Tweet In a month when Netmums decided to announce that feminism is like so last season, it was a little bit of a surprise to read that the Chartered Management Institute’s pay survey has found that being a female executive means you earn £10,060 less than a man doing the same job – or simply [...] Tweet I do wonder if the column inches dedicated to blaming mothers for just about everything from global warming, obesity, the nation’s drink problem and goodness only knows what else are a sign that actually the traditional world is feeling a bit threatened by us – why else spend so much time obsessing about how [...] Tweet If you watch just one thing today, watch this – Julia Gillard, who I have to say I have never felt particularly drawn to, has taken a stand against the sexism and misogny of her parliamentary colleagues It is brilliant – not least watching the leader of the opposition gradually slide down in his [...] Tweet If you are a man in a work environment you have probably never felt singled out for being a man, embarrassed by personal comments on your appearance or attire, or been the butt of endless jokes about your love life, sex life, inability to be as good as your female colleagues just by dint [...]  |
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