Rachael Revesz, The Independent

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The furlough scheme has propped up the massive sham that is our white collar workforce

Why are so many of us still pushing paper, lobbying, project managing for people whose skills we can’t replicate, being paid ludicrous day rates to make PowerPoint presentations? → Read More

Women find it harder to break the rules – not like those in charge right now

Some rules are designed to keep society functioning, to keep us healthy and safe. Others are imposed to keep us in our place → Read More

Goodbye catchups – after lockdown I want real friendships back

The happy side of the pandemic is that it has exposed the weaker links and shone a light on the people who really do make an effort, and with whom you want to reciprocate → Read More

Goodbye catchups – after lockdown I want real friendships back

The happy side of the pandemic is that it has exposed the weaker links and shone a light on the people who really do make an effort, and with whom you want to reciprocate → Read More

You may have unknowingly invested in unethical industries, even if most of your choices are eco-friendly

Why are we all invested in these corporate horrors? Because they are mostly unavoidable – they make up a large chunk of the UK and US stock market. But we can make better choices → Read More

Books are my only true escape since lockdown stopped me travelling

“If you seek comfort, you don’t explore the world.” I wrote this sentence down in my diary a few years ago. I’m not sure where it came from. It wasn’t Proust or Joyce, it may have been Ben Fogle. Nonetheless, it was the mantra I adopted when I moved to New York for work, and many other times when I have felt anxious about change. → Read More

Society tells us having one woman in the room is an achievement for us all – it isn’t

For quite a while, we were all very excited about the “woman firsts”. Cressida Dick, the first woman Metropolitan Police commissioner, Jo Swinson, the first woman leader of the Liberal Democrats, or Alison Rose, the first woman CEO of Royal Bank of Scotland (of any UK high street bank, in fact). Each appointment was seen as a bastion of progress, a positive harbinger of → Read More

I've come to hate cars with a passion. I know it makes me an angry Karen – but you should hate them too

I can’t pinpoint the moment I woke up from my blissfully ignorant reverie about the state of our planet. I just know that one day, I opened my front door and was wildly angry about the number of cars on the roads. It was the noise, I realised, of the grinding engines, the coughing ignitions, a car idling on the pavement, clouding me in fumes while the driver listened to the → Read More

Freelancing is not an aspirational, flat-white-fuelled dream. The reality is much harder

For all those now entering the self-employed Wild West, let’s recognise the real economic hardship that is ahead for many of them, instead of spinning it into some kind of fantasy playground → Read More

I was optimistic about this brave new post-Covid world – until the Tories reminded us who they really are

They say the youth – and those in their early 30s – are deluded in their optimism. I figured that, after such seismic change in the way we travel, work and socialise, and after all the clapping for NHS workers, viral pictures of wild boars on Italian streets and goats in Welsh villages, we would be granted some truly revolutionary economic package on emerging from lockdown to → Read More

I've no longer got FOMO, I've got fear of joining in. I've realised I need more time to myself

A few weeks into lockdown, I read so many articles about the joys of pause and reflection that I wanted to throw something. Did you know that Shakespeare wrote King Lear when he was hunkering down during the plague in 1606? It was this forced, silver lining mentality that drove me nuts, the columnists encouraging people in small flats to listen to the bird song and convincing → Read More

Working from home is easy – tackling a toxic work culture of presenteeism is harder to crack

During lockdown many people will have delighted in the novelty of working from home. No commute! Slightly better lunches! But as days have become months, the novelty may have worn off. One Zoom call leaks into another. The light of your workplace instant messenger tool enters your dreams. It becomes apparent that, work-wise, the environment may have changed, but very little → Read More

In this new post-coronavirus world, one day of menstrual leave a month is all I ask

Day two of my period: the worst has passed. Thanks to the coronavirus pandemic, I’m in a comfy chair with my feet up, working from home. The laptop is balanced on my legs and a hot mug of herbal tea substitutes as a hot water bottle. I’m making work work for me – isn’t that what this post-coronavirus culture is all about? What I really want, however, is a day off a month. I → Read More

Even if we ditch the two metre distancing rule, I'm worried I'll never make another friend

There’s been a lot of talk about what kind of world we “want to go back to” after the coronavirus lockdown, and how our lives might change. That is scary. It’s much easier to ignore the bigger, unknowable picture and to instead argue about whether we should keep two metres apart, or one, or one and a half. And which person in your house gets to “bubble up” with someone outside → Read More

I've just re-watched Normal People. Marianne and Connell have a terrible relationship

Week 125 of lockdown and I think a significant proportion of the population has now watched Normal People for the second time, yes? While everyone is still lusting after Connell and his chain, I’ve come to a new understanding. It gives me great relief. And that is, Marianne and Connell, the very white and horny teenagers from Sally Rooney’s wonderful imagination, have a → Read More

Better childcare is all very well, but gender inequities in relationships start well before childbirth

“Am I the household manager?” is a question women in heterosexual relationships around the country are no doubt asking their partners or spouses, day in, month out. It’s a rhetorical question, usually prompted when their other half says something innocent yet irritating, like “Where are my shoes?” or “We’ve run out of milk.” (The fact that women might always know exactly where → Read More

Women need to learn up on money – and this is the urgent reason why

I have a simple, rallying cry: women need to do more with their money. → Read More

Do you need social media followers to get a book deal?

They say everyone has a book inside of them. But does everyone have what it takes to get a book deal? Besides a great idea, you arguably need talent, time and dedication to tip yourself over the line from aspiring writer to published author. In 2019, you may also need a social media following. Take Pinch of Nom, a cookbook by Kay Featherstone and Kate Allinson, which sold more → Read More

10 best millennial memoirs by women 2019: Must-reads covering mental health, dating and running

From books on dating to mental health, we've found the best female millennial memoirs, including Dolly Alderton and Bella Mackie, that are must-reads for 2019 → Read More

Smear test: Fear, pain and misunderstanding keep women from undergoing a life-saving procedure

In March 2009, when reality television star Jade Goody died of cervical cancer at the age of 27, it sent shockwaves around the country. Cervical screenings saw a massive spike. In 2008-09, samples from women checking for abnormal cells shot up by 400,000. → Read More