World Teachers’ Day 2011: Teachers for Gender Equality
World Teachers’ Day is held annually on 5th October to celebrate the essential role of teachers in providing quality education at all levels. It’s promoted by both UNESCO and Education International. The theme for 2011 is Teachers for Gender Equality, with a focus on the issues surrounding the provision of education systems that empower both [...]
Is a UN Agency for Women necessary?
On Saturday 26th March 2011, I attended a workshop in Central London on exploring gender equality. The afternoon session was mostly about a new UN agency launched in July 2010 called UN WOMEN to address issues pertaining to gender equality and the empowerment of women. During the afternoon we learned that the agency is still [...]
The Female Eunuch – 40 years on
One of the most controversial feminist books ever to be written was published forty years ago. At the time I was only ten, and probably couldn’t even spell feminism, let alone understand what it was all about. I was oblivious to the uproar it caused at the time, and unaware that I would be meeting [...]
The Secret Feminists
No, they aren’t the paramilitary arm of Feminism – who gather together in furtive cells, ready to inflict acts of terror in the name of gender equality. I was disappointed, too Secret feminists are the girls and women and maybe even a few men all around us who for one reason or another choose not [...]
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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