Today marks 'International Day of the Girl Child', an annual initiative dedicated to focusing on the need to achieve gender equality and empowerment for young women across the world. This year’s theme is ‘My Voice, Our Equal Future.’ As CEO …
This Government is investing in infrastructure and construction to support the economy and help us bounce back from the pandemic. This UK Construction Week, Rachel from Arup tells us about her experience of being a woman in the construction …
In 2016, a team of writers from Hansard began work on a research project on female MPs. They were tasked by colleagues in the Curator’s Office and the Parliamentary Archives to find statistical data on women elected since 1918 and …
As a child growing up in the 1980s, with the first female Prime Minister leading our nation I always assumed women could do anything men could do. It never crossed my mind that being a girl would hold me …
Flexible working has recently made great strides. Last month, half of the UK workforce was working from home as a result of extraordinary social distancing measures introduced in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. There is hope for many that flexible …
Today marks the 50th anniversary of the Equal Pay Act. We spoke to Chair of the Institute of Directors, Charlotte Valeur, to celebrate the progress that has been made and also to look at what more still needs to be …
When a rich and powerful man asked Cat Crossley what she planned to do next (to start a feminist stationery business), he expected her to fail. This is one woman’s dream sustainable business story in celebration of National Stationery Week. …
For National Intergenerational Week, last week, we spoke to mother, Arpinder Kaur Bansi, and daughter, Mandeep Bansi about their incredible careers and how the role models in their lives were so important to spur them on in their jobs to …
For International Women’s Day and British Science Week we are shining the spotlight on Dame Athene Donald DBE FRS who is a Professor of Experimental Physics at the University of Cambridge. Athene spoke to us about why it is so …
Today is International Women's Day. In this post, we explain some of the work we're doing to #PressforProgress.
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