We had the pleasure of welcoming Helen Molyneux, of the Institute of Welsh Affairs at our recent AGM. During her insightful talk, she spoke about people often wanting her top tips for Business success. But with many women being overlooked in the workplace, “we don’t need tips for success” she says, “we just need to […]
Halloween: the time of year when you might spot ghosts and ghouls doing their weekly shop in the supermarket. But did you know that Halloween originated from Celtic origins? Both the Gaelic and Welsh people in medieval times saw their original folk beliefs mix with Christian faith and this time of year marked the end […]
Bethan Elfyn has been broadcasting across BBC radio and TV since the late 1990s – first of all with local station BBC Radio Cymru, and moving to front the new shows for the Nations on BBC Radio One in 1999. The decade was spent firmly ensconced in the UK’s music scene, hosting main stages at […]
The time is fast approaching for us to celebrate a significant part of our annual calendar and one of my favourite events of the year – International Women’s Day. Founded in the early 1900s, IWD is a global celebration of the incredible social, economic, cultural and political achievements women have made but is also a […]
For the 2014 WEN Wales Annual Lecture, we invited Beatrix Campbell, Pragna Patel and Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett to share their experiences and thoughts on Fourth Wave feminism and the current status of women in the UK. WEN Wales are to be congratulated for putting together such an inspiring panel for their annual lecture on 27 […]
So, we want to achieve gender parity in local and national elections, and public life more widely, by 2020. It’s 6 years away, should be easy, yes? Hmm, maybe not. In 1997 the Westminster General election saw more women elected than in all the previous parliaments combined. The ratio has got worse since. In Wales […]