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Category Archives: Equality
Working Together for Equity
This week I was honoured by the THE as the winner of their ‘Lifetime Achievement’ Award during their annual awards’ ceremony, for my work around gender equality issues. Photo courtesy of THE. With me are John Gill (L), their Editor … Continue reading
How Silly Are You (or Pompous or Forthright)?
What’s wrong with being called gutsy? The new book by Hillary and Chelsea Clinton use it as a term of approbation, but it didn’t find favour with Emma Brockes in the Guardian. Why? ‘It’s partly that descriptors like “gutsy” seem … Continue reading
Doing Your Bit
When you have vulnerable people being harassed, what can you do? And I mean you. I have written a lot recently on my blog about the importance of bystanders. To learn more, I attended a recent training session regarding Bystander … Continue reading
Who’s a Crazy Bitch Then?
I was interested to read an article (not such a recent article in fact, but I’ve only just come across it via Twitter links) describing the misogynistic name-calling of senior women in Canadian universities. Headlined ‘The “crazy/bitch” narrative about senior … Continue reading
Posted in Equality, Women in Science
Tagged Carole Cadwalladr, misogyny, Miss Triggs, name-calling
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How Many ‘Firsts’ does it take to Change a System?
As the new academic year starts in Cambridge the University Library is marking 150 years of women studying here, even if admission to degrees came much later in 1948. Collectively we can also note that for the first time essentially … Continue reading
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Tagged gender pay gap, Lucy Marshall, Sally Davies, Sonita Alleyne, University Library
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