Stories Archives - Womanthology

Baby Koan

Establishing a movement based on compassionate and individualised care for each mother and baby: Let’s persuade society to value women and motherhood more – Dr Natalie Shenker, Co-founder of the Human Milk Foundation

Chloe Orkin

Gender equality is a distant dream but I want to be part of the journey towards achieving it – Professor Chloe Orkin, Vice President of the Medical Women’s Federation

Jonathan Cliffe

Yes, men can be midwives too – Jonathan Cliffe, Midwife at Warrington and Halton Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

EMIS X

Changing the life of NHS patients with technology and data – Alex Eavis, Director of Analytics at EMIS

RARE Fest

Keeping people with rare diseases connected: The challenges they face during the pandemic – Jo Balfour, Managing Director and Founding Member of Cambridge Rare Disease Network

Medical Engineering

Shining a light on clinical engineering: The importance of engineers in the healthcare sector – Helen Meese, Founder and CEO of the Care Machine

Rachel Lambert-Forsyth

Placing equality, diversity and inclusion at the heart of pharmacology – Rachel Lambert-Forsyth, Chief Executive of the British Pharmacological Society

Doctor-at-desk

You can change your career at any time, just follow your passion! – Dr Heidi Mounsey, Honorary Treasurer for the Medical Women’s Federation and Medicolegal Consultant

Northwood College TfL presentation

Bringing young people together to come up with an innovative solution to a real-life transport challenge – Hazel Grant, Early Years Delivery Manager at Transport for London

Evie-Hodgson

Evie Needs a Hero: Searching for a life-saving bone marrow donor match for my 8-year-old daughter but never giving up hope – Tina Hodgson

Ruth Amos - Social distancing wings

Learning to ‘sew with fire’ and showing girls they can be engineers, scientists or whatever they want! – Ruth Amos, Inventor of StairSteady and Director of Kids Invent Stuff

Shaimaa El Banna

Fostering gender equality: Funding female Egyptian scientific researchers and ending the stigma – Shaimaa El Banna, Head of Science Programmes at British Council Egypt

Kerrine Bryan - My Mummy is an Engineer book

Writing better books for our children: Smashing gender stereotypes in careers one profession at a time – Kerrine Bryan, Engineer and Founder of Butterfly Books

Hazel Hill

Girls CAN do maths: the little girl who helped Britain win WWII -Felicity Baker, granddaughter of Hazel Hill

Earthwatch Girls-in-Science

Career exploration and confidence-building for the next generation of female scientists through hands-on citizen science – Anna Woodroof, Program Manager of Earthwatch’s Girls in Science Fellowship

Girlguiding

Collectively, we can all help to create a gender-equal world: COVID-19 can’t stop us! – Amanda Amaeshi, Girlguiding Advocate

Could accumulated emotional resilience be an unexpected silver lining to the COVID-19 cloud for those suffering with anxiety? – Louisa “Wizzi” Magnussen, Founder of Minds Anonymous

Ying Wan Loh

One role, several jobs: Why engineering is constantly changing and adapting to the world around us – Ying Wan Loh, Manufacturing Engineer at Rolls-Royce’s Civil Aerospace Division