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Jemma Brimblecombe
28 February 2017
IWD: What is being done to combat violence against women?
One of my favourite placards during the Women’s March was “I can’t believe I still have to protest this ****”. It is 2017, and I cannot believe that the levels of violence against women remain so high.
27 February 2017
IWD: ‘Come on, give us a smile’ – the girls and construction mix
My resting face, and in particular my focused face, is stern. ‘Come on, give us a smile’. This is what I heard from a man whom I did not know, whilst checking my e-mails following a major construction legal industry networking event earlier this month. Whilst ignoring the demand, I instantly started fuming inside. I thought a lot about this minor incident since.
24 February 2017
IWD: I Am Woman, Hear Me Roar.
As Maeve Keenan wrote about in her IWD Blog on Wednesday on 21 January 2017, around 100,000 people descended on the streets of central London to partake in the Women’s March on London, as they did in towns and cities across the UK and the world.
23 February 2017
IWD: God invented high-heels so women could put dishes away on the top shelf. Personal anecdotes as to why International Women’s Day is still relevant.
In the spirit of International Women’s Day this blog is a collection of personal anecdotes from my time as a trainee and solicitor, prior to joining Kingsley Napley, and the questions these experiences have raised for me about gender attitudes in professional contexts and in general. Sometimes the line and when it’s crossed is obvious. In these cases it’s easy to know when behaviour or comments are inappropriate and when it’s acceptable to challenge them. Other times the line is blurred and it’s harder to know whether it’s appropriate to react and how we should do so effectively. In this blog I’d simply like to open up a discussion on where the line is and through personal anecdotes show why the treatment of women in professional situations means that International Women’s Day is still relevant.
22 February 2017
IWD: Taking on Trump: What was the point of the Women’s March?
On January 21, 2017, men, women and children from across the globe took to the streets en masse. Thousands of demonstrators, armed with placards carrying messages of defiance and female empowerment, took part in Women’s Marches happening everywhere from Alaska to Osaka. Organisers of the Women’s Marches called for people to join them ‘as part of an international day of action in solidarity’ aimed at promoting women’s and human rights. It also happened to be Donald Trump’s first day as President of the United States.
