Submitted by Miriam O'Reilly on April 30, 2012 - 12:31
The casual ageism and sexism directed at women was perfectly deomonstrated by AA Gill in his attack on Professor Mary Beard in the Sunday Times. As I said in my Guardian comment piece, just because a women is appearing on TV doesn't make it okay to single her out for personal jibes about her appearance, particularly when men are very rarely assessed in the same way.
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Submitted by Miriam O'Reilly on March 30, 2012 - 10:51
I was thrilled to be at the official launch of the Women's Equality Network last night. As Camilla Palmer said, the room was 'buzzing' - but not just with excitement, with intent.
We will get as much out of this opportunity as we put in, so let's come together and help each other.
I interviewed the Liberian Nobel Peace Prize winner Leymah Gbowee recently. By encouraging women to join forces in peaceful protest, the former warlord Charles Taylor was overthrown. After decades of civil war, Liberians are now living in peace.
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Submitted by Miriam O'Reilly on February 13, 2012 - 12:14
I was out of the country when the Director General of the BBC, Mark Thompson, made his public statement about the lack of older women on TV. He said my ageism case against the Corporation was a 'turning point'.
Incredible women like Joan Bakewell had been campaigning for older women for years before I launched my case against the BBC in 2010, but it took legal action to make the difference. In some ways I find this terribly sad, that I had to go through that difficult process to bring a change of hearts and minds at the BBC.
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