A woman called george

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HOW DO WE CARVE OUT A LIFE THAT SUITS US – NOT SOCIETAL EXPECTATIONS? ON ENTERING HER 40S, Poorna Bell DECIDED TO EXAMINE EVERYTHING SHE’D BEEN CONDITIONED TO BELIEVE AS A WOMAN… AND THEN DO IT DIFFERENTLY

I think I must live in a particularly optimistic, some might say simplistic, bubble. I try to live and let live, do unto others as I’d have done to myself and such other well-meaning codes for life. A

Who’d be a woman in 2026? Fillers, Ozempic, motherhood, non-motherhood, the 5 to 9 after your 9 to 5, “hair botox”, splitting bills, Hinge, protecting your peace, emotional labour, body positivity, bo

THROUGHOUT history, women have paved the way to a brighter future in politics, science, society, the arts, literacy and countless other fields. We’ve had Rosalind Franklin, the chemist responsible for

I was born in 1975, so not quite one of Thatcher’s children, but almost. I grew up in a time when the narrative around women and work was changing: more women were going to university, entering the jo