Being paid less than a colleague for no other reason than your gender is illegal in the UK, but it can be really hard to know how to get started tackling it. Here are some quick tips from us on dealing with the gender pay gap! Do your research The most straightforward...

“In 2019, on average women were paid 83p for every £1 men were paid.” This opening line from a House of Commons blog post on the gender pay gap in the UK is typical of how we tend to talk about the pay gap. It’s helpful in that it shows how great the discrepancy is,...

Setting up for maths class is usually a easy. You are comfortable with the content, you know your students so well you can guess where upset might come from. Everyone including yourself, is comfortable, happy and engaged. But what about puberty, menstrual health and...

In our previous post we talked about the Pain Gap - the way pain is treated and understood differently between men and women. Women’s pain is often dismissed or downplayed by medical professionals, with dangerous consequences for women. It’s a super important topic,...

In recent weeks, the usual steady background noise of body-shaming and fatphobia has seen an uptick. A higher mortality of Covid-19 among people deemed obese led to a range of Government proposals, including calories to be displayed on restaurant menus and a public...

Lockdown hit hard and fast -our normal everyday lives suddenly looked very different. It can be incredibly  hard to cope with such extreme changes and actually it is perfectly natural to feel a range of feelings and emotions.  Lockdown was difficult enough without...

Lockdown has been an extreme strain on mental health and wellbeing of all of us. While many of the restrictions have been lifted for now, the world remains a profoundly altered place, and we are facing a long time ahead of us with uncertainty and worry. To mark World...

I have to admit when I was younger I really didn’t care much about what company I bought my sanitary products from. I just went into my local supermarket every month and picked the brand I liked best. I didn’t think to research more about the company I was buying my...

Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) is thought to affect one in ten woman. You might think therefore, that it would be a condition which was widely studied and well understood. Shockingly though, we still know very little about PCOS - we aren’t even sure what causes it!...

It is not all doom and gloom when it comes to periods and thankfully, as a society, we are moving forward. Periods are not as demonised as they have been in the past. A film about menstruation won an Oscar. Period products are provided for free in a number of...