WomenEd Blogs

by Kerry Jordan-Daus @KerryJordanDaus I have been reading Mary Ann Sieghart’s The Authority Gap (2021) , the stories of expert, talented, successful women, occupying a wide range of powerful leadership roles, recounting their lived experiences of...

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by Nicole Rodden @NicoleRodden1 At the #WomenEd global unconference this weekend the word ‘anger’ was repeated. ‘Anger and hope leads to change’ by Dr Jill Berry. Being falsely called aggressive and angry, a stereotype of black women in particular,...

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by Tanya Hall @TheRealTMH A recent Twitter post by @AdamMGrant got me thinking about the assumptions associated with women in education: are 'women who assert their ideas, make direct requests, and advocate for themselves liked less' and are they...

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by Anna Ambrose @AnnaAmbrose On Friday 6th March, 2021, I noticed a thing on my Facebook feed. It was the last day (for now at least, fingers crossed) of home-schooling for families in England. And men were busy thanking their amazing wives* for...

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By Christina Astin @ChristinaAstin The proportion of girls choosing A level physics and pursuing STEM careers has remained stubbornly low for decades. But recent research should give us hope. We understand much better now what helps fix the leaky...

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by Annelouise Jordan @Leazy84 Based on @WomenEdBookClub discussion. The Lost Girls, by Charlotte M. Woolley, truly redefined me as a teacher and, when I say redefined, I truly mean it. Fact - science is sexist. Charlotte writes about the sexism...

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by Patrick Ottley-O'Conner @ottleyoconnor Father and Husband The United Nations @HeForShe movement has reported that they are seeing the stereotypical gender roles of women at home become more apparent during lockdown and want to highlight positive...

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by Elise Ecoff @EliseEcoff #BirthdayCelebration Photo by Rampal Singh on Unsplash Quarantine. Lockdown. Social distancing. Whatever you choose to call the way in which we’ve lived the last few pandemic-filled months, it has clearly been a period in...

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by Tara Bryan @Bryan_Amethyst I’ve got no shame in saying it: I love Calamity Jane. Doris Day was my first heroine before I even knew what a heroine was, and even then I instinctively recognised in Ol’ Calam’ herself something that would often be a...

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