and now listen to this...

There are theories, aren't there, about coincidences and whether they are real or whether it's because you had already had the thought, or reacted to one event that the next was significant enough for you to notice and make a link.
Following on from my thoughts on part time work, I heard a wonderful talk yesterday on women's equality on Radio 4.  It is brilliant.  It is 15 minutes long - I stayed in the car in the Tesco car park to hear it out.  Judith Shapiro, a successful economist acknowledges and celebrates the accomplishments of women in her lifetime but succinctly puts her finger on the next challenge and changing men and women's view of part time work is one of them.  I have an underlying concern that women's history is always repeating itself - that we go two steps forward and one step back and that the next generation feel they have to break the ground that their mother and grandmothers had actually already broken.  Shapiro's reflection is an excellent pointer to looking forward and moving forward.

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More on Judith Shapiro and credit for the photo here: http://www.intelligencesquared.com/speakers/judith-shapiro/