I apologise to international readers in advance.
But this week’s newsletter will be about the men’s football/soccer.
I’m sorry.
And HERE WE GO!
At the moment all of England seems to be IN LOVE with one man. It’s of course the manager of the England national team: ...
Apparently people believe that going to space will CHANGE Jeff Bezos.
As you know the Amazon founder is flying to space this month.
“If you see the earth from space, it changes you” Bezos has said.
He is referring to what’s called the “overview effect”...
Today was the day.
My book Mother of Invention: How Good Ideas Get Ignored In An Economy Built For Men is now out in the UK. Hurray!
It has been very hot in large parts of England this week. Then the other evening the rain came. I was on my way back from the train station and was very happy to be in a car with a roof.
You see, we can’t take these things for granted.
YES even roofs on cars have to do with gender.
Let me...
The other day, over dinner, my friend told me a very familiar story. About how she needs to start thinking seriously about the prospect of her business failing next year.
Not because she’s not selling a lot of products to a lot of customers.
But because she has trouble securing funding.
...
Have you noticed how pockets are marketed to women as if they were ROCKET SCIENCE?
I recently bought a pencil skirt and the company told me all about how “innovative” the design was because it had pockets.
But COME ON.
Tailors on the Savile Row devised a standard male suit with 17...
It was a very comforting narrative, wasn’t it?
It was TOO comforting.
When the pandemic hit last year the political response soon became tangled up in a big story about gender and leadership. Countries led by women were doing better, we heard. Oh, to live in New Zealand and be under...
When my mother got pregnant with me she decided to retrain. She went to university to study computer science. Today this sounds like a very #girlboss thing to do - a brave young woman with a baby in tow sets out to become a computer programmer…
But it wasn’t #girlboss.
It...
Once upon a time a woman was asked about the success of her company. She smiled and said:
- I have been really lucky….
Once upon a, very similar, time a man was asked about his success. He smiled and said.
- I have always been...
Last week Elon Musk took to Twitter in order to FINALLY explain to the world why those self-driving cars that we were told would be everywhere in 2021 are still, well, not really anywhere in our daily lives…
He wrote:
“A major part of real-world AI has to be...
Gloria Steinem once wrote how she was not AT ALL surprised by studies showing that women’s intellectual self-esteem tended to go down as their years of education went up.
“No wonder” Steinem wrote “we have been studying our own absence.”
The more years you study your...
Back in 2013 three esteemed male scientists published a paper arguing that the reason menopause exists is basically because of Leonardo DiCaprio.
Well, they didn’t EXACTLY put it like that…
“Leonardo DiCaprio” is not the correct scientific term. I’m using...
