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We are all Serena 🎾

Serena Williams has announced her retirement from tennis and has been refreshingly honest about how unfair it is and how much she resents the sacrifice she has to make as a mother.

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Time to ban women’s football again? ⚽

And in 1921 women in the UK were BANNED from playing football at the FA's football pitches for 50 years. Women’s games were regularly attracting 50,000 fans. Pulling too much focus. Maybe now is the time to ban it again, eh lads?

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Anyone for tennis?

Should your work uniform unfairly disadvantage you and affect your performance? Surely the answer is no? So why do women have to wear all white outfits at Wimbledon?

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Return to the office, or quit!

Elon Musk has said that workers who don’t want to come back to the office can ‘go and pretend to work elsewhere’, and they should stop ‘phoning it in’.

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Does working from home make you a lazy git?

This week a well known British businessman and celebrity, Alan Sugar, sparked debate when he tweeted that the new PwC summer working policy, which allows all staff to take Friday afternoons off in June, July & August, was 'a bloody joke'. Do you agree?

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Are you brave?

Someone told me “You are brave!” and as you would expect of me, I replied with a “Thanks for saying that!” and carried on my day. Then, my inner voice began asking: Am I ‘really’ brave?

By MICHELLE WESTFORT

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Battle of words

A Battle of Words is a series where we will examine common comments that feed negative gender stereotypes and how to flip the script and turn them into meaningful conversations.

by MELISSA MCCOY

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Merging my leadership style into business values

Most people often question me on how I manage to drive leadership in my organisation, Hosts International; in such competitive student/agent/school landscape where emerging beyond the competition is a challenge. It’s not easy!

By HARSHA SHIVDASANI

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Break through the glass ceiling: Communication strategies for women in the workplace

Frustrated when nobody listens to your ideas in a meeting? Perhaps you have been overlooked for a promotion? Are you close to that glass ceiling but just can’t seem to break through? Talane Miedaner, international bestselling author and founder of LifeCoach.com shares her insights and will answer any questions you may have on this topic during our first webinar which takes place on 29th March at 12.

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