“I don’t suppose I’ll ever get my career back,” she told me. “I’ve been out of the game for ten years. Nobody will want to employ me now.” Sounds familiar? Up and down the country, too many mothers are…
Work
How to switch back to mother mode when you work from home
When you work from home, the transition from mother to worker and back again can be sticky. On those rare days I work in the office, the change in physical surroundings helps me separate the different parts of myself. It’s…
The gentle art of saying no
I’m getting better at saying no. I turned down two offers this week. For once, I put my own priorities and mental health first and I said two polite nos to opportunities that would have caused me heaps of stress….
MIND THE gender pay GAP
Does Carrie Gracie resigning from her £135K BBC job have anything to do with you and me? Carrie Gracie, former China editor for the BBC, recently quit her post and took demotion when she discovered her male equivalents earn 50%…
Happy New Year already!
Happy 2018! I know I’m a couple of days early but, truly, we’re done with 2017. Really done. So much so that it already feels like 2018 in our house. So I’m saying it now, while I’m still feeling the…