Careers & Livelihoods
Glass ceilings? The challenges of leadership? Does a woman have to choose between care giving and her career?
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Ruth Boreham writes of Mary Somerville, Scottish science writer and polymath – a truly dangerous woman defying expectations in the 19th century.
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The story of a women-only space at a refugee camp
Vienna-based artist Patricia Gerger writes of her experience volunteering at a refugee camp, where she set up a weekly women-only space.
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…in the Life and Works of Maud Sulter (1960-2008)
Celeste-Marie Bernier writes of Maud Sulter, whose photography challenged the historical narratives and exoticization of black women’s bodies.
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Scottish Women Compositors in the Late Nineteenth Century
‘What we do know for sure about the Scottish women typographers of this period is that men saw them as dangerous…’ Robyn Pritzker looks back to the 1800s.
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Long before Lord Thomas, Sir Terence Etherton and Lord Justice Sales were exposed as ‘Enemies of the State’, the Daily Mail had another judge in its sights…
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Dangerous women “think critically and independently about everything, including the women’s movement”. Law Teng examines her “stay-at-home” mother role.
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Amanda Gouws examines the collective action led by young activists against rape and rape culture in South African universities.
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Dangerous women serving the city
Over the course of three centuries, the prostitutes of Florence ascended from outcasts to workers in the service of the state. Gillian Jack explains how.
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Getting women and girls into science
Talat Yaqoob is the Director of Equate Scotland. In this post, she writes about women in STEM and the related event at the Audacious Women Festival.
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