by birdsoup | Mar 8, 2020 | Uncategorized
So somehow March is already here, a new decade, IWD2020, and as well a personal birthday coming up, it is also Birdsoup’s 3rd anniversary, so lots of reasons for some reflection. Whilst becoming an entrepreneur in your 50’s is apparently a trend (whoever came up with...
by birdsoup | Nov 18, 2019 | blog
On International Men’s Day 2019 we asked a stay at home dad to talk about the challenges and rewards… The background For the last 4 years, I have been a stay at home dad. If you had told me 6 years ago when our oldest child was born, that in 2 years...
by birdsoup | Mar 8, 2019 | blog, iwd2019
So I woke up this morning to a lovely, sunny International Women’s Day and felt full of optimism. It feels like over the past 12 months things have moved to another level: more diverse voices are speaking out and to a greater extent they are being heard. We all know...
by birdsoup | Mar 6, 2019 | blog, iwd2019
Yesterday we blogged about improving maternity transitions, getting it right benefits both Women and organisations. Obviously, not all women choose or are able to have children, but all women will go through the menopause. In the UK that’s 13 million women and it’s...
by birdsoup | Mar 5, 2019 | blog
Maternity leave has been in the news a fair bit recently: the Bill Gates foundation controversially reduced their paid maternity provision, as this Observer article details, and in this story from The Times, a top British lawyer described how she was going to tackle...
