I've never personally experienced any sexism. Or at least not as far as I can remember, which may mean it has happened, and I've brushed it off as a normal, unremarkable, everyday thing. And that's exactly the point Laura Bates was making when she set up The Everyday Sexism Project in 2012, a platform for women to talk ...
Playing Duplo trains with my three-year-old last week, we had a crisis. We couldn’t find the train driver. I picked up the girl who came with the set and put her in the driver’s seat. My little boy took her back out. “No, she is a girl – she can’t be the train driver. We ...
The house went dark. It was like that scene in a scary movie when the baddie cuts all the wires. I look out into the hall - no baddie. Well as far as I could see in the pitch blackness. The kids were all screaming, pretending to be petrified but secretly loving the drama that ...
I'm working hard to teach my daughters that they can be anything they want when they grow up - astronauts ("really?"), footballers ("no way mum, I thought only boys could be footballers") or business-owners (because they've both decided that's what they want to be - as opposed to my job in an office which they say ...
There are many generalisations about the differences between men and women, and like most generalisations, they are sometimes valid - clichés don't get to be clichés without a good foundation in truth. This is particularly the case when it comes to the workplace, where the following assumptions are often made and are frequently true: Women are good at ...