Monthly Archives: February 2018

The first time I realised that I was one and they were referring to blokes, guys, chaps, fellows, gents, geezers (dudes might be rather a stretch) – indeed men like me, was sometime early last year, 2017. Being perfectly honest, I can’t tell a lie, (well I can but I’m not going to), I confess that I didn’t like the idea of being one then, but didn’t dwell on it too much and got on with my day, rather thinking, and perhaps hoping that it was just a ‘one off’……………or, on reflection, perhaps I was in denial. But there again, [...]

Education is the Key to Women’s Empowerment Investing in the education of women and girls is not only good for the economy it is also a basic human right and one that needs to be clearly evident in how governments prepare their budgets from a gender mainstreaming perspective. When we contemplate what the real value of a woman’s worth is to the economy this will largely depend on what country she lives in. There are some countries around the world where women have no rights and are often regarded as nothing more than a piece of property. They can have [...]