I still get cross thinking about it. The story in The Times about spectacularly successful and influential Helena Morrissey and how she copes with her nine children and the fact that her husband is of the ‘house’ persuasion. A successful person with quite a few children is happy to leave them in the care of […]
It’s not just men who are sexist
Get the picture? Taking the mickey out of men just because they are men is easy, it’s (a bit) funny, satisfying and, it’s very wrong. You know the kind of thing – jokes that make blokes out to be overgrown children incapable of anything but watching sport and farting. And that set women apart as […]
What would you say to your 18-year-old self?
Posh Spice started it with her recent advice to her younger self. Then the Daily Record asked a few writers, including me, if they wanted to share their wisdom. Here’s what I wrote: Dear Ellen YOU’RE 18 and you’ve almost finished your first year at university. While you think you’re invincible and that you […]
What I know about the gender pay gap
Well. What do you know? Women who are mothers get paid even less than men. In yet another report from the Laboratories of the Blindingly Obvious, we do at least get a name for that thing that most of us knew what was happening – it’s a gender pay gap. It doesn’t mean […]
Death to supermummy, her time is up
There’s a mythological creature out there. At first glance, it seems like a perfectly ordinary woman trying to earn a few quid, do the best for her family and scratch out a few measly moments at the end of a busy week for herself. Yet, she has magical powers. She can run the house, look […]