Editorial eyebrows were raised when I suggested W for Women in my theatrical alphabet, and I can see why. After all, I wouldn’t do M for Men. But, far from ghettoising women, I want to do the reverse: to pose the question as to whether gender-based definitions were becoming less important as we edged towards [...]
It’s a world where guys have superpowers and the girls are very often disempowered. But now two Glasgow-based women are attempting to shake up the often misogynistic comic book environment with the UK’s biggest comic convention, Kapow!, in London this weekend. Sisters Lucy and Sarah Unwin not only hope that their show will be a [...]
Returning to work from maternity leave can be a daunting prospect. Faced with the challenges of balancing family demands with their artistic careers, a group of female artists have formed a fledgling movement known as Desperate Artwives – an ironic twist on the title of the hit American drama – to continue exhibiting and working. [...]
Were you breastfed as a baby and if so, do love or hate your mother? Do you have children of your own and if so, do you or did you breastfeed them? And for how long? And if it was a long time ago, do they still speak to you? And did you ever do [...]
Is always in the eating… What the old folks meant by that saying is that the quality of anything (especially any thing new) is uncertain until tested!! When I started walking on the relatively untested road of the Journey Model, it was hard and I still find it hard sometimes, because you know, changing old [...]
The Treasury failed to consider how crucial policies would affect women, disabled people and ethnic minorities before the 2010 spending review, according to a report by the equality watchdog. The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) said it was “unable to establish” whether the coalition checked its proposals meant for vulnerable people – despite this [...]
Vidal Sassoon, who has died at the age of 84, spent decades at the literal and metaphorical cutting edge of hairdressing, having risen from abject poverty to conquer London, New York and Los Angeles. Four times married, he was a charmer, a philanthropist, a fighter against antisemitism, a man who loved his mum (setting her [...]
Illustration: David Foldvari When Alexandra Shulman, the editor of Vogue, announced recently that her magazine would no longer feature underweight or underage models, I can’t say I dropped my Krispy Kreme in sheer molten glee on the first count. I am not one of those fat birds who feels miserable because models are thin. Frankly, [...]
The redoubtable Jean Alys Barker, Baroness Trumpington of Sandwich, in the County of Kent – Trumpers to her friends – was made a Conservative peer in 1980. She was in Strasbourg at a conference when she heard. “The British consul rang me and told me that my husband had desperately been trying to get through [...]
