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Rayner my parade! The importance of specialist advice.
Jemma Brimblecombe
22 February 2018
IWD: The role of global businesses in advancing women’s rights
It can be difficult to appreciate the reality of the situation faced by millions of women every day in seemingly distant corners of the World but International Women’s Day is an opportunity to educate ourselves on some of those conditions and take action to push for change. The enormous scale on which women are facing extreme suppression, sexual violence and financial inequality simply because of their gender should be addressed, even when this occurs across the globe. Those of us living in wealthier and more equal societies should not excuse ourselves from this responsibility on account of our ignorance or physical distance from the environments in question.
22 February 2018
IWD: Combatting casual sexism: #BeLikeAndy
It was with dismay that I read a tweet from Anna Isaac, Economics Correspondent at the Telegraph, which read: “When a man on the train expresses his surprise that a ‘young lady’ is reading the business section of the Telegraph and the FT. He starts explaining that Davos happens every year. What ‘CBI and ECB’ stands for. I try to politely move on… he asks: ‘so what is it you do?’
21 February 2018
IWD: 100 years of change – a celebration of women’s rights
This year is the 100 year anniversary of (some) women achieving the right to vote and all women being entitled to stand for Parliament. This blog is a celebration of some of the achievements of women since then, and some suggestions as to how we should #PressForProgress this year.
20 February 2018
IWD: For the guilty working mother
I am 54 and have always worked as a Lawyer. I have two grown-up sons and when one of them was visiting recently I asked, at a relaxed moment, whether he had been aware that I was working extremely hard when he was young ( running a team of medical negligence lawyers, often working at weekend and in the evenings after bedtime). His response was an unequivocal yes.
20 February 2018
IWD: The Hollywood code of conduct - from the casting couch to the disciplinary panel
2017 was a good year for women. Or perhaps it just seemed so, because all years preceding it had, in terms of sexual abuse, been so very bad.