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Always with the food!
I live interstate, so I don’t get to see my family all that often. But we got together for a big dinner, and all was lovely until Mother started telling my sister-in-law that she wasn’t feeding my...
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Patronised by my union
I work for the NHS and am a member of a trade union. My union proudly claim to fight workplace discrimination, whether based on gender, age, race, sexual orientation, etc. I just received a 2011 diary...
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BP’s diversity strategy
I work for BP’s trading organization. We just had a round table discussion about how to get more women into higher level roles, and into trading. Our Head of Trading said that we were going to start...
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The absurdity of paternity leave
I am pregnant. For all sorts of reasons we have decided that – all being well – I will take 4-5 months maternity leave, and my partner will take 3 months unpaid leave to follow on from that. This will...
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Short Haircut: You Can Guess Where This is Going, Right?
I have recently gotten a very short haircut. Although the nontraditional trim has given me much confidence, and has met much accolade from my close friends, I get many comments intended to be...
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Creative Victim-Blaming
In the early 1980s, my mother lived in a flat with three other women. She was a night-shift working nurse, and on a certain sunny day while her flatmates were at work, she left the windows and doors...
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Epic Pwnage of Street Harasser
I had an interesting encounter the other day. I was wearing shorts – as you do on a warm day – and walking down the main street to the university, in the middle of the day. A couple of men stopped me...
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Sexism Makes You Bad at Math
My husband got offered a new job, one he had very little experience for–but his Boss was willing to train him up. He could probably have done 20% of the job. After a few weeks it wasn’t working out so...
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A Message From Your Mod
Hello all! I just wanted to remind you that when sending in your stories, we need you to give us a location. You can be as specific as the city or town, or as general as the country, but we need...
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Hiking: Totes Not Feminine
I am an avid backpacker / hiker / camper and have been going on 5 years. I am also female. Anyway, over the years I’ve come to be pretty tolerant of the stereotypes, from both genders. Once in a...
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