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Catherine Mayer

Nov 8, 20238 min read

Resist polarisation. Embrace complexity. Speech to the Women's Equality Party conference, Nov 2023

In late October, I fell on the towpath next to the Regent's Canal in London, breaking my wrist. A woman ignored me as I called out to her...

Catherine Mayer

Jan 2, 20184 min read

How to Celebrate the Suffrage Centenary

Let the bells ring out. A hundred years ago this February, British women won a great war. Not the Great War: Germany wouldn’t agree the...

Catherine Mayer

Jun 5, 20173 min read

An unexpected endorsement from U2

I knew in calling my latest book Attack of the 50 Ft Women that I was setting myself a challenge, just as Sandi Toksvig and I understood...