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Accountant from Swansea, Everton supporter, politically left-leaning feminist, living with fiance Mark and Dai & Woolf the cats

Swansea, UK
Joined August 2010
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@Liv_N_InSin I'm hoping I'll be re-training. Applying for a BMid next year!
I have a week booked for midwife work experience!!!!!!
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The best reaction I've seen to the Tesco / horse fiasco…
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Cos you know, stewing in the same tampon/sanitary pad all day, that's not uncomfortable AT ALL!!
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So funny, I always think I've not been too badly affected by sexism at work...then you start listing all the instances!!!
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Oh, haha, forgot about when discussing sexist H&S poster there was a comment that women find stairs hard because of their shoes! #StandingUp
#StandingUp and my all time favourite when I yell at engineer for not being where they're meant to be: "Are you on your period?"
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#StandingUp nearly forgot how the parking spaces closest to the building are allocated to women "in case they get raped in the car park"!!!
What are your worst experiences of Workplace sexism/harassment/assault? - use hashtag #StandingUp
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While giving a job interview, male line manager kept joking about me hooking up with the (16 yr old) applicant #StandingUp
#StandingUp urge, if forgotten the calendars of naked women. Why? Just why?
#StandingUp haha, once asked by a male boss if our all female office "just sat there fingering ourselves all day" - charming!
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#StandingUp constantly referred to by male colleagues as darling, gorgeous, sweetheart, love. My name is VICKY. It's only two syllables.
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#StandingUp was asked twice whether I intended to have children by two different people interviewing me for the same job.
#StandingUp when phoning suppliers for plumbing company was told to say who I worked for quickly or they'd assume I was a time wasting woman
#StandingUp now work adjacent to payroll office & have to listen to men asking to dodge the CSA cos women tricked them into having children
#StandingUp on my last day having been made redundant @ last job, former MD stood behind me and started groping my waist & hips.
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#StandingUp then there was the touching. Used to work with a lot of shoulder squeezers and arm strokers
#StandingUp previous job we had unisex toilet. Was told there were no sanitary bins cos its not v nice for the men...
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One receptionist was actually sexually harassed out of her job by that department #StandingUp