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Europe | U.K. | Intergrity

Little girl writes letter to Tesco CEO to demand pockets for girls’ school trousers

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A little girl has written to the CEO of Tesco accusing the supermarket of sexism after discovering that only boys’ school trousers had real pockets. Nine-year-old Eleanor Waterman was very annoyed when she discovered that the school trousers she had chosen from Tesco had fake pockets. She was so annoyed, in fact, that she wrote a letter to the supermarket’s CEO Dave Lewis expressing her outrage. Her mum explained that Eleanor had written the letter because she just couldn’t understand why the boys got real pockets, but the girls didn’t. ‘At the start of term, Eleanor put
Europe | U.K. | Business

Supermodel turned investor: what Natalia Vodianova did next

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The statistics on the struggles of female entrepreneurs are a depressing read: 90 percent of funding goes to all-male founder teams in the UK, and, in the US, all-male teams are four times more likely to get investment than if they have even one woman in the team. But the story is different if you cross paths with Natalia Vodianova, the supermodel. The 37-year-old is putting to good use the money earned in a two decades-long fashion career from huge contracts with brands such as Calvin Klein and Guerlain. Now she spends her days managing a portfolio of “impact investments”: busine
Europe | U.K. | Activism

HearHer Is The UK’s First All-Female Festival Giving Women In Music The Space They Deserve

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In 2018, UK festival line-up statistics were still rather disappointing. 70 percent of festivals featured all-male bands, leaving many to wonder why female artists were still being dismissed. These figures come from the founding members of the UK's first all-female festival, HearHer: three days of musical bliss performed exclusively by female artists. Set to take over Dorset's Sandford Holiday Park from Oct. 11 to 13, HearHer has enlisted over 20 incredible performers to share their talents with the nation. The festival has been curated by singer-songwriter KT Tunstall and actress-slash-mu
Europe | U.K. | Activism

Women in science: Smashing glass ceilings and glass walls

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A woman engineer who worked on the moon landing spoke this week of how she was once told the control room was no place for women. Things have changed a lot in 50 years, but not as fast as some had hoped. BBC News spoke to five scientists from different generations who are breaking barriers in their field. Famous for discovering the first pulsar more than 50 years ago, Prof Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell has also been a lifelong advocate of women in science. As a school pupil in Northern Ireland in the 1950s, like other girls she was not permitted to study science until her parents (and others
Europe | U.K. | Career

‘Why should I have to work on stilts?’: the women fighting sexist dress codes

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Too many female employees are forced to wear high heels, or skirts, or even a particular type of bra. But the resistance is growing. It was at the beginning of a shift at Harrods that Georgia Brown told her manager where to go. Brown, then aged 22, was working for a temp agency that supplied shop assistants to the department store. She cannot remember the name of the manager. But she does remember why she lost her cool: she had had enough of being forced to wear heels on the job. “Not just a mini-heel, but proper black stilettos. Bear in mind, you’re on your feet in Harrods a
Europe | U.K. | Career

Lagarde and Von der Leyen: Europe taps first women for powerful roles

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Ursula von der Leyen has been nominated for president of the European Commission, which proposes and enforces policy for the 28-member political and economic union and is one of the two most powerful E.U. institutions. France's Christine Lagarde, who currently heads the International Monetary Fund, has been nominated as president of the European Central Bank, which sets monetary policy for the 19 nations that share the euro currency. Von der Leyen, 60, is a close friend of Angela Merkel, speaks multiple languages and was a doctor before she entered politics. However, the Brussels-born mother
Europe | U.K. | Courts

U.K. Court of Appeal Overturns Ruling Ordering Mentally Disabled Woman to Have Abortion

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A British appeals court on Monday overturned a lower court’s order that a mentally disabled woman undergo an abortion. The earlier ruling had prompted an outcry from the Roman Catholic Church and abortion opponents. The three judges on the Court of Appeal didn’t explain why they ruled against proceeding with the abortion and said they would give their reasons at a later date. The lower court ruled Friday that the woman, who is in her 20s and 22 weeks pregnant, didn’t understand the challenges of caring for a child and wouldn’t be able to meet them. That court, known as the Cour
Europe | U.K. | Leadership

THE END OF MAY Theresa May RESIGNS and finally admits defeat

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TEARFUL Theresa May today finally admitted her time was up and quit as Prime Minister insisting: "I've done my best". The PM was forced to resign after she failed to deliver Brexit and lost the support of her own MPs - but will continue in office as a lame duck until July. Shortly after meeting Tory "executioner" Sir Graham Brady, she addressed the nation in the spring sunshine of Downing Street - watched by adoring husband Philip - and admitted her time is up. The PM confessed she now has no chance of ever getting her Brexit deal through Parliamentbut insisted "I have done my best" to
Europe | U.K. | Society

One in five women are childless at 45 and they are having fewer offspring than ever, new data reveals

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Women are having fewer children than ever before and more are staying childless, new data reveals today. Women who turned 45 in 2016 had an average of 1.80 children, down from 2.21 for their mothers' generation, who turned 45 in 1944. The same generation also had fewer children by their 30th birthday, suggesting women are having children later in life. Women who turned 45 last year had 1.06 children by 30 compared to 1.8 in their mother's generation. In total, 18 per cent of women who turned 45 last year had no children at all, compared with 11 per cent of women in their mother's ge
Europe | U.K. | Health

The rate of suicides among women has increased to its highest level in a decade

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The number of suicides among women in the UK has increased to its highest level since 2005. Figures from the Office for National Statistics show that 6,188 people in the UK intentionally took their own lives in 2015, up from 6,122 in 2014. This increase was driven by a rise in deaths by suicide among women with the rate rising from 5.2 to 5.4 per 100,000 people. It means that the rate of suicides among women has now reached its highest level since 2005, although it is still significantly lower than in 1981 when 10.6 per 100,000 women intentionally took their own lives.
Europe | U.K. | Politics

BREXIT AFTERMATH: Gamblers are putting money on the next Labour leader being one of 2 women

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The next leader of Britain's main opposition, the Labour party, is going be one of two women, according to bets at bookmaker Star Sports. Speaking to Business Insider on Sunday, head of politics Jamie Loughead said that so much money has been flowing into bets for Jess Phillips and Caroline Flint to take over from Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, that the bookmaker has had to radically amend its odds.
Europe | U.K. | History

A 92-year-old World War II fighter pilot flies her plane for the first time in 70 years

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It's been decades since her last flight, but Joy Lofthouse, a 92-year-old Air Transport Auxiliary veteran, was given the chance to board a Spitfire airplane for one more trip. Lofthouse was one of just a few female pilots to fly for the British during World War II, part of an all-female division nicknamed the "Attagirls." Her job as a service pilot was to shuttle planes from the front lines back to factories for repairs. During her time in the service, she flew 18 different aircraft, but one always held a special place in her heart.
Europe | U.K. | Business

Female traders may be the key to heading off stock market crashes

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While the scenes depicted in the film The Wolf of Wall Street might be extreme, they do reflect a truth: that the world of finance is overwhelmingly male. It is this male-dominant culture, fueled by testosterone, that has been blamed by regulators, academics, and the popular press for instability and crashes in the financial markets. And with reason. Experiments conducted by psychologists and others have shown how testosterone affects decision making and in particular individualattitudes to risk. People with higher levels of testosterone are more likely to take bigger risks. Hormone levels,
Europe | U.K. | Business

International Women’s Day 2016: The six women smashing the glass ceiling at UK’s top firms

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International Women's Day celebrates the achievements of remarkable women and highlights issues of inequality around the planet. There has been some improvement in increasing the number of women in boardrooms, however, with FTSE 100 firms meeting a voluntary target of 25% of women board members last year. To celebrate the women smashing the glass ceiling by leading FTSE 100 companies, IBTimes UK profiled these six female CEOs. Alison Cooper - Imperial Tobacco - CEO since May 2010 Maya Greene - Royal Mail - CEO since July 2010 Carolyn McCall - EasyJet - CEO since July 20

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