Periods should not be painful
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What happens when periods are painful? How do painful periods caused by endometriosis, PCOS or pelvic pain, affect people’s lives?
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Allowing ourselves to age
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I was standing in a London changing room, at the age of 26, when it happened.
Read MoreBook review: Pain and Prejudice - chronic illness, pain and its disproportionate impacts on women
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Pain and Prejudice is a book about the structural prejudice that the health system displays towards women’s pain. It’s a memoir about having endometriosis and a powerful history of how medicine has treated women through the ages, and failed to take women’s pain seriously, with often dire outcomes.
Read MoreTravelling with a baby in Japan
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People thought we were mad when we said we were going on holiday with our baby. Here’s what we’ve learnt so far.
Read MoreThe search for uninterrupted time
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The older I get, the harder I have to work at having uninterrupted time to myself. Having a baby means it’s even more of a challenge.
Read MoreOut of office: I’ll be back from parental leave in 2020! And yes, I am coming back.
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What does it mean to be a woman who has lots of different roles, ‘mother’ being just one of them, ‘employee’ another? Here’s what I’ve picked up over my last few months at work - through my own experiences and those of others - and what needs to change.
Read MoreInternational Women's Day - what can we do?
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Sometimes International Women’s Day can be a bit depressing. There’s still so much to do, so many ways for our society to treat women better. So I asked myself, what can we do, in simple ways each day, to advance equality?
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