#WomenEd Blogs

by Vivienne Porritt @ViviennePorrittThis is my 6th annual blog on Equal Pay Day for the UK which is on 20th November (Fawcett, 2024). Equal Pay Day is recognised globally and each specific date may be different due to the size of the #GenderPayGap in different countries. It's the day when women, on average, effectively stop earning relative to men ...

by Vivienne Porritt @ViviennePorritt I was privileged to join the #WomenEd South East England network in Brighton last week to celebrate our new book #DisruptiveWomen. It was an uplifting evening with 50 women joining us to network, learn, and be #10percentBraver. It was brilliantly organised by Ruth Astley and Bianca Greenhalgh and hosted by Patch...

by Caroline Stanbrook @caroline stanbrook This summer has been an exciting and nervous one for me.  In September I am taking a step up in my career into the role of Associate Vice Principal at Winton Community Academy.  It is a move that would not have been possible if my new Principal had not been open to flexible working.  My new s...

by  Kerry Jordan-Daus Twitter   LinkedIn Well, 9 years old – haven't the years just flown by? The cover photo is from 2016! Digging into my photo album, I also found this photo. What a journey we have been on together. Friendships formed, mentoring, advice sought, and so many coaching conversations. Thank you. You've been there ...

by Vivienne Porritt @ViviennePorritt The images and the experiences of women and children in Gaza shock the whole world and yet it continues and is worse each day. Looking globally, we see a picture of women's rights being systematically eroded and I certainly wonder what else can we do? We must do all we can when we read the details of life in Gaz...

by  Harroop Sandhu   Twitter  LinkedIn Have you ever felt that you needed a little extra courage to pursue your dreams? I know the feeling. When I ran my first workshop at the 2023 #WomenEd's Unconference, I was confronted with challenges like train strikes that threatened to derail my plans. I could have easily turned back, but...

by Dr Kerry Jordan-Daus @KerryJordanDaus    As I draw breath on this rainy Saturday afternoon, I take this space to look back over my first year as CEO of Veritas Multi Academy Trust. This has been an amazing year, demanding of my depth of leadership experience, but also my self-belief in my leadership skills. Leadership of Learning ...

By Briony Bowers @BrionyBowers Briony went to #WomenEd sessions at #rEDBerks2023 recently which led to her retweeting her 2021 blog. Sadly, progress since then has been minimal. In 2015 the New York Times published an analysis of the CEOs of S&P 1500 firms revealing the remarkable statistic that there were more men called John leading these big...

By Lucie Ager   @lucie_ager A thought from #WomenEd sparks my need to write. Was I the woman I wanted to be? This question came to me on the back of a comment on a post on LinkedIn with the artwork of a female profile and the words 'I love the person I've become because I fought to become her', which is catchy and massively thought-provok...

By Clare Erasmus  @cerasmusteach Welcome to the final blog in our series of seven tech blogs from the inaugural meeting of our new private space for #WomenEdTech. Here, Clare takes a look at her path to becoming a digital strategic lead. A few years ago I was Head of the Digital Tech subjects and the Senior Mental Health Lead at my school. In ...

by Vivienne Porritt @ViviennePorritt

We started WomenEd because women's voices on twitter were often silenced, harrassed or our views were not valued. It's one of the reasons we included a mic in our logo. So we encouraged women to tweet and to write blogs to tell our stories and share our lived experience. 

One of the reasons we wrote 10%braver: Inspiring Women to Lead Education was to ensure the voices of our community reached women who are not on twitter. And over 30 voices are included in Being 10% Braver which, joyously, is published this December - you can pre-order and it's a great Christmas present! And we are delighted to share more opportunities for our community to write and to be heard.

By Vivienne Porritt   @ViviennePorritt Our team of Global Strategic Leaders were thrilled we gained Registered Charity status before Christmas. It was even more special as these are the charitable objects we want to achieve: to promote equality and diversity for the public benefit by eliminating discrimination on the grounds of gender by raisi...

By Hannah Duncan   @heduncan Combining work and motherhood is possible. It is also possible to thrive and progress in your career. But often, as mother teachers, we feel these things are not possible for us. Too many teachers leave the classroom after becoming mothers (see the MTPTProject's excellent Light Research project where they delve int...

By Lucie Ager   @lucie_ager On 30th January, 2023, #WomenEdSE hosted an amazing and inspiring event for #WomenEd at my workplace. I planned the style of the event to a tee, from creatives and catering to the finer detail of purple and grey balloons; the colours of #WomenEd's logo. The room, filled with 70 or so women leaders and two of my male...

by Sian Williams   @principalsian Are you a female leader in England contemplating the Department of Education's white paper, where by 2030, 'remaining maintained schools would change status, to become academies'? Are you leading a standalone school wondering whether a Multi-Academy Trust (MAT) is really the way forward? Do you have a sense th...