Category: Women Doing Amazing Things
Kemi Badenoch maternity pay comments spark Tory row
BBC A row over comments by leadership candidate Kemi Badenoch suggesting maternity pay had “gone too far” has dominated the first day of the Conservative…
Women’s football: Can the sport become big business?
Part of the reason revenues are soaring in the WSL is because of the money and resources men’s football provides to its women’s clubs, allowing…
Does Chinese investment benefit or damage Ireland?
Huawei Back in May, Irish Minister Dara Calleary helped Huawei celebrate 20 years of doing business in the country The Irish economy has been increasingly…
Brexit talks ‘up tempo’ and Kashmiris allege torture
Reuters Brexit negotiators to ‘step up tempo’ With a little over two months until the UK is scheduled to leave the EU, Boris Johnson says…
ITFC Women’s Sophie Peskett cites ‘mental strength’ for good form
Ipswich Town FC Sophie Peskett has eight goals and eight assists in her first six games of the season Ipswich Town Women’s winger Sophie Peskett…
Maternity pay has gone too far, says Kemi Badenoch
PA Media Tory leadership candidate Kemi Badenoch has suggested maternity pay has “gone too far” and the government needed to interfere less in people’s lives.…
Wales women: Not set up for qualification until Ludlow success
Ludlow stood down as Wales boss in 2021, replaced by Gemma Grainger who became the country’s first ever full-time manager focused only on the senior…
Koneru Humpy: Chess player is BBC Indian Sportswoman of the Year
She also won gold at the 2018 Youth Olympics Games and shot a Commonwealth Games record of 240.9 points to win gold in the 10m…
Saskia Clark: America’s Cup a ‘big deal’ for women, says ex-Olympian
“Alongside the sailing bit, there’s a lot of background work in engineering and boat building, careers that haven’t been that accessible for females so we’re…
Cats have more freedom than women, says Meryl Streep
Cats have more freedom than women in Afghanistan, Hollywood actress Meryl Streep has said in an appeal to the international community to stop the Taliban’s…