First Women Interview with Dany Cotton
Now retired, Dany Cotton was a firefighter for over 30 years and who, from 2017-2019 served as the first woman commissioner of the London Fire Brigade. She was also the first [...]
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First Women Interview with Baroness Usha Prashar
‘Equality, justice and human rights,’ are what motivate Baroness Usha Prashar in her work. One look at her CV and these themes are writ large: Chief Executive of the [...]
First Women:Live! Dame Stephanie Shirley CH takes your Zoom Questions!
If you haven’t checked it out yet, we warmly welcome you to join our new way to interact with the First Women 100 portraits – live online! All you need is Zoom [...]
First Women:Live! kicks off the New Year with Dr Buck and Elspeth Beard!
In this fourth instalment of our popular Zoom Q&A, taking your questions live online on [...]
Special edition First Women:Live! Zoom with Suzi Quatro
We are delighted to announce a very special Christmas guest for our Next First Women:Live! Zoom event Date: DECEMBER 17TH. Time: 18.30-19.30 GMT. For this third instalment [...]
First Woman Interview with Monique Simmonds
Monique Simmonds was the First Woman to become Deputy Director of Science at Kew Gardens. She researches the traditional and economic uses of plants and their potential for [...]
First Women:Live! – Goes Live!
On September 22nd at 6.30pm we took the plunge. Myself and Deborah (my editorial director and ‘write’-hand woman) had been talking about how to keep the energy of [...]
First Women Interview with Angela Rippon
Television journalist, news reader and presenter, in 1975 Angela Rippon became the first woman to regularly read the national news on the BBC – preceded by two decades [...]
Five Reasons Why Outside is the Best Lockdown Medicine
The First Woman to swim from Cornwall to the Isles of Scilly: who better to share their natural prescription for happiness in these challenging times than ocean swimmer and [...]
Remembering Dame Clare Marx: 1954 – 2022
Work experience aged 16, with the ‘surgeon who lived round the corner’ led to falling in love with surgery and eventually growing up to become the First Woman President [...]