I was recently chatting to Hazel Moore, co-founder of the investment bank FirstCapital, and she used a phrase that has really stayed with me: “There are these subtle signals that science is for boys.” It’s so true. Subtle signals. Unconscious bias. They’re phrases that can make you despair. Especially when you consider how these things […]

As a little girl, my friend’s daughter was fascinated by all kinds of creatures, from puppies to beetles to the litter of newborn rats she discovered in the garden shed. Her ambition was to study biology, or perhaps become a vet. She had the academic chops and the grades to do so, but in the […]

In my latest article in Huffington Post I talk about why we have to slow down to the speed of humans rather than the breakneck light-speed of tech. By continuing to care about the humanities. Click here to read the full article.

This year’s IWD theme, Press for Progress, underlines what so many women already know: that it’s time to take control, and enable ourselves and each other. We’ve been chipping away at gender inequality for years. Yet, just a few weeks ago, the UN deemed the pace at which the world is moving towards greater gender equality “unacceptably slow”. […]