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Confessions on My Affair with the Phone: How it all started

Another post to add to the ones on careers, but to be fair it’s more in the nature of a number of adventures one after the other than any kind of strategically planned ‘career’, as you’ll see. Something that I really believed I’d have trouble writing about has turned into a mini series – I [...]

Can we, should we, stop using diversity as a selling point?

Having just listened to the news, I was pleased to hear that Diane Abbott is to stand as a potential leader of the Labour party – from what I know of her, she is not afraid of sharing her opinions and can make a good point – but my opinion has nothing to do with [...]

Same pay scale, yet the man can earn up to four times as much?

Image by drgillybean via Flickr As mentioned in previous blogs, there is still a considerable pay gap between men and women, despite there being Equal Pay legislation around since 1970. Generally this is greater in the private sector where there is more secrecy around salaries, but the public sector shouldn’t be complacent. In the public [...]

In Her Shoes

In her shoes: My descent in entrepreneurial hell

In her shoes is a series  of anonymous posts from women in business, sharing their experience. In your comments you are asked to answer the question – What would you do in her shoes? My story began 9 months ago; it is a story of self-realisation, friendship, love and betrayal. After 11 years at home [...]

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