This year marks 20 years since I left school. At our leavers’ assembly a wonderful teacher, Mrs Broom played a song which I first replayed on tape, then CD, then an iPod playlist and now Spotify. This song has become like the soundtrack to my life, in a way. I

I was recently privileged to be invited to help shape a new strategy the government’s Gender Equality and Economic Empowerment office is launching soon. They asked everyone involved to invite our networks to share our perspectives on what achieving gender equality and economic empowerment means for women and I was

January was a slog. Google threw up the list of symptoms of Australian flu and I ticked all the boxes, on top of the joys of debilitating morning (relentless all day) sickness and exhaustion of those early knocked-up days. Those weeks were lonely and frustrating. I was scared about a

Predictably shocking stats were released by the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) today about employers’ attitudes when recruiting and employing mums or women who might dare to consider pro creating. 1,106 ‘decision makers’ were surveyed and the findings leave no room for doubt: UK businesses are decades behind the