Ruth Whippman

The assertiveness movement has taken a male-defined value system and sold it back to us as feminism. By Ms. W…

Opinion The constant pressure to sell ourselves on every possible platform has produced its own brand of mode…

Opinion In a particularly low moment a few years back, after arriving friendless and lonely from Britain to l…

Opinion I'm at the kitchen sink, after a long day of work and kids and chores and the emotional exhaustion of…

Guilt will never make the grade as an A-list emotion. No one has ever written a sonnet or a power ballad abou…

The chilling twist in Newtown, Connecticut was the tiny size of those playing the key roles. Instead of gangl…

When I was a student, back in the early nineties, I had a holiday job at the frozen-food supermarket chain, I…

Mail Online, the more insistent, bitchier spawn of the Daily Mail, is now the most visited newspaper site in …

"Will you keep on working after the baby is born?" "Will you be going part time?" "Do your earnings cover the…

The idea was clearly that the warm and likeable mother of five would rescue her spouse from a level of unpopu…

If there's one thing that David Cameron is clear about, it's that he wants us all to do the 'Right Thing,' a …

You have to hand it to the Catholic Church. It takes a certain level of chutzpah to come through arguably the…

It's amazing how much routine sexism we regularly feed our kids via their reading material. Strange as it may…

As soon as an American baby is born, its parents enter into an implicit contractual obligation to answer any …

I used to work for a large organization. One afternoon, all the staff in my department were herded into a gia…