Women in the Workplace
S. Dickinson works with guns every day. Is something dangerous just because it is unusual? Here she writes about perceptions and experiences.
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Redefining danger as a ‘softer but more durable quality’
“A mother with aspirations may be entirely natural but it’s also dangerous.” Natasha Rivett-Carnac reflects on balancing motherhood with professional life.
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Agatha Christie as a Dangerous Woman
Alison Joseph is a crime writer and radio playwright, former Chair of the Crime Writers’ Association, and author of the Sister Agnes series of detective novels. She has also written three novels featuring Agatha ChristieContinue reading
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“I’d leave the heavy lifting to the boys” – Tree surgeon Millie Earle-Wright responds critically and creatively to the way people perceive ‘men’s work’.
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The most profitable movie released by Universal Pictures in 1916 was a film on birth control and abortion, written and directed by a woman. Who was she?
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Writer Jan Carson talks about Flannery O’Connor, who was an inspiration to her when she needed it most. Read this personal, entrancing biography.
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“A Woman’s Place is in Antarctica”
Listen to these fascinating audio recordings of geologist Janet Thomson, the BAS’s first female scientist allowed to work in the Antarctic.
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A poem by Irene Hossack
Poet and Creative Writing teacher Irene Hossack responds to the news of Margaret Thatcher’s death with her poem ‘Obituary’
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A woman working in a male-dominated sphere: the Christmas Market
A new view on a familiar sphere: the festive Christmas market, and the male-dominated working sphere behind it. Beth Cochrane writes about her experience.
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