Working on a different planet
When you move abroad for the first time, you probably expect there’ll be a certain level of culture shock. What I experienced, though, when I moved to Germany (following my husband’s career move), was more of a fundamental shift in the space-time continuum. Literally every aspect of my life changed, including how I felt about [...]
Three Perils for Women in the Workplace – Sexism, Ageism and Lookism
It is almost 4 years since legislation was introduced that was intended to protect the workforce against Age discrimination but with rising unemployment in the over 50’s the economic outlook gloomy and public sector cuts inevitably leading to staff with more ‘years in’ accepting voluntary redundancy packages – what is the outlook for women as [...]
Does is it exist? Equal opportunity in the work place
The first phase of the Equality Act 2010 has passed as a law by the parliament in the UK and will come into force on October 1, 2010 which will witness many changes to the work place. It replaces previous legislations (such as the Race Relations Act 1976 and the Disability Discrimination Act 1995). Employers [...]
Guestblog: Brain tumour diary, starting radiotherapy
Things have been relatively quiet on the brain tumour front over the last couple of weeks. I was referred to Maidstone Oncology Department for my radiotherapy course, and this was supposed to start this Monday (27th). However, I had various questions which I was unhappy about. My oncologist had fleetingly referred to possibly “faster brain [...]
Guestblog: What the war meant to Women
One of the perks of owning my own business is that I get to go along on the school trips with small child. Rather rashly perhaps, considering that I am not good with children, I volunteered to look after one of the groups on the latest school trip. There were two reasons for this, small [...]
All that jazz – All in A Day
If I sat down and really thought about what I could achieve in a single day, I might be able to come up with some interesting challenges that I think might be possible…. but record a whole album? Well that would probably not be one of them, even if I had the requisite talents. But [...]
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