This week I had the great privilege of attending @CampusPartyEurope: five days of frenetic gaming, hacking, coding and robotics hosted at London’s O2 by Telefonica. I’d like to point out (at least to my much better qualified sibling and brother-in-law), that I wasn’t actually doing anything remotely technical myself. My days of laboriously hand-coding anything … Continue reading
Category Archives: Feminism
Blogs that consider modern feminism and what it might mean
Gender parity: stop talking, start doing…
A couple of weeks ago I joined a pretty amazing group of women from my corporate employer in what was the inaugural meeting of the UK operation’s women’s network, Women in Leadership. We’re a pretty large organisation in the UK (thousands of employees), and our board of directors has made very public its support for … Continue reading
Is @FT institutionally sexist?
Let me start off by admitting, I’m probably most broadsheet newspapers’ worst type of customer. I almost never pay cover price – the only time I pick up a newspaper in physical form is when I’m given a freebie on a plane, or in a hotel. The rest of the time I piggy-back on my … Continue reading
What is it with the anti-intellectual brigade?
Gathering my thoughts on Twitter this morning, I picked up this from the absolutely marvellous Vagenda Magazine: There are a couple of things that bother me about this –Â Firstly, that Generation Y (and possibly Z, I suppose) women are still just as likely to worry about whether or not their political/philosophical beliefs make them … Continue reading
The Myth of Male Decline: reports of death = greatly exaggerated
Startlingly, it appears that the Great American Male is not an endangered species after all, at least, not according the the New York Times. What’s eye-opening, if depressingly not surprising, about the world Stephanie Coontz describes is that despite rapid progress towards greater equality in the 60s and 70s, women’s economic and societal advancement in … Continue reading
Caution! This gender-balance is reversing!
Sitting on the train drawing into Paddington station (en route from Slough to Leeds, both destinations of fabulous exotic promise and salubriousness), you can’t help but notice, if you are staring mindlessly out of the window at the right moment, the signs declaring “Where is your banksman?”. No, not a reference to a rebranding of … Continue reading
Where is your banksman? 