Have you seen all the #MeToo posts? They are by women who are putting up their virtual hands to say that they’ve been sexually assaulted or harassed too, in response to the Weinstein scandal. Women like you and I. It’s important to show how wide-spread this is and how, until now, so many women dealt with […]
Where are all the menopause shops?
There is not another human experience that has escaped the attentions of the commercially-minded folk of the internet. Really – whatever it is – untidy cupboards, the inability to get off your sofa to do things or the need to detoxify something that was never toxic in the first place – there’s not just one […]
What I know about the gender pay gap
A happy Bert day and other matters
Mental load: at last, a name for that thing
You should have asked. It’s the title of a comic strip in the Guardian by French feminist artist Emma. It beautifully describes a thing I’ve been clumsily groping towards for years. When you have all of the stuff for everyone in the house in your head, most of the responsibility for getting things done and, […]