Last night of the passion
Picture the scene: Saturday morning, about 8am standing in my kitchen stirring a pan of porridge (I’ve just discovered it’s so much better done this way – instead of the microwave – and it’s a great...
View ArticleWorking Mothers Show They’re Still Players
I’ve been casting my mind back to all the people I was in touch with during the writing of Mothers Work! Samantha was/is an HR manager, one of the first contributors to my book and a woman intent on...
View ArticleWorking Mothers Holiday Enid Blyton Style
We’ve been a long time in Noddy Land in our house (no really, this is a literary reference not me berating myself for a series of school girl errors of late ha ha!) and have recently moved on to Enid...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleSenior Civil Servant Job-Share
Picture courtesy of The Guardian website Once the preserve of women at the lower end of a company’s org’chart, job-sharing is now happening in the upper echelons of management. At least it is if you...
View ArticleSplitting the childcare and earning – Catherine’s Story
Thank you for your most recent newsletter about sex and domesticity, to which you invited comments and thoughts. I have thought about this topic a lot over the past few years. My husband and I are both...
View ArticleHow to leave work on time and still be seen as committed
“How can I leave on time and still be seen as committed?” In a room of coaches and employers at a seminar we ran at the University of Hertfordshire on maternity comeback coaching recently, this was the...
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