Sheryl Sandberg’s ‘Lean In’ Digested chapter by chapter

My first thoughts are “It’s slimmer than I thought it would be. How much of this did Sheryl write? How much effort did she really put in?” And then I ask myself ‘Why does it bother me that she didn’t do the actual bashing at the keyboard?’ (Because I DID slave away at a keyboard for several months whilst writing mine. So what?). Let’s get beyond that because she’s a good woman doing something positive. I’ve heard her speak at... Read More

Women at The Top

Hilary Devey is back in the media today (18/3/13) and so I re-publish this post that was first published on 7th September 2012. My back is up after three minutes of Hilary Devey on the BBC’s two-parter “Women at the Top” (whaaaaaat? I’m screeching in a restrained, forehead wrinkling kind of way when she makes a throw away comment about women not wanting the top jobs enough or some such) so I press pause and take Hanif Kureishi’s Intimacy to bed with me. I go via the... Read More

Babies in the office

Good on Addison Lee for giving babies in the office a go. Or good on their PR team for spotting a great opportunity to flag their brand to millions of people via the BBC. “Special and unique” are the words Addison Lee’s (the largest private hire company in the UK) managing director Liam Griffin used to describe his one day ‘babies in the office’ experiment. Stressful and ‘who on earth is this helping?’ are mine. What the programme demonstrated was that this is... Read More

The Triple Burden

Rummaging around my PC looking for an article I thought I’d written, I found something else I started writing over a year ago and never quite finished before forgetting about it. I give you an eplanation of what the ‘triple burden’ of motherhood is and why it’s an issue. Let me know what you think: The Triple Burden: Bad Behaviour, Broken Heating and a Burgeoning Workload? I have turned to writing to stave off the tears prickling behind my eyes. For the... Read More