Category: Women Doing Amazing Things
Ipswich mother tells of her baby death heartbreak
Laurence Cawley BBC News, Suffolk Family Callan Brett, 33, of Ipswich, lost her son Henry to infant acute myeloid leukaemia in May 2021 A mother…
Races won by women up 76% in five years as ‘Just Jockeys’ campaign launched
Horse racing is a rare sport in that women regularly compete against men at the top level on an equal footing. The campaign, which features…
Charlotte Jenner: Apprentice jockey calls for rides ‘equality’
“Sometimes it is strength and they can be as strong, but it’s also finesse. I had a flat horse a little while ago, all kinds…
New tax divides India’s booming computer games sector
Kamala Thiagarajan in Madurai, India Getty Images Charanjot Singh, closest to the camera, plays football computer games for India Charanjot Singh plays football professionally, only…
Bianca Devins murder images flood Instagram
Williams/Devins family Bianca Devins Instagram is struggling to remove images of the body of a 17-year-old – apparently posted by the man who has now…
Japan’s tennis star Kimiko Date on her comeback career
Getty Images Kimiko Date, one of this year’s BBC 100 Women, was the first Asian female tennis player to be ranked in the world’s top…
How the Ethnicity Pay Gap Campaign is tackling salary inequity
Klawe Rzeczy Dianne Greyson, founder of the Ethnicity Pay Gap Campaign, talks to the BBC about staggering wage disparities for ethnic minority groups (Credit: Klawe…
Tanya Scholtz: South Africa call-up for Guernsey-based accountant
But for the pandemic Scholtz could have made her debut for the Springboks already – she took part in a training camp with South Africa…
A Bollywood marital drama that’s relevant even after 50 years
Geeta Pandey BBC News, Delhi SMM Ausaja archive As the 1973 Bollywood hit film Abhimaan, with superstar Amitabh Bachchan and his wife Jaya in the…
‘I want Telford sex abuse inquiry as a model for other areas’
Tom Crowther KC said he was proud of the work done in Telford since the inquiry The man who led the inquiry into the Telford…