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About Jane Shillingford

Jane spent the bulk of her career working on women’s magazines. Now retired and living on the south coast, she has no regrets and 'would do it all again'. More Posts

We’ve come a long way (or have we?)

To be honest, having fought a few equality battles in my time on behalf of the sisterhood and looking back now, sometimes I wonder what all the fuss was about. It’s either that – or that I find myself worrying about what modern young women are doing with the hard-won advances that we put [...]

September 2, 2016 // 0 Comments

Women and sport

Unlike some of my male colleagues who are making great play of the fact they won’t be watching Rio 2016 as if there is some hardship involved in their decision, I am having an Olympics-free summer with no difficulty or regrets at all – largely because I have enjoyed a totally sports-free life [...]

August 10, 2016 // 0 Comments

Still rocking …

It’s always good when a fellow member of the ‘old bird’ sisterhood can still tell it like it is. I had thought that maybe I was past it – horrified by the prospects of dating an endless succession of losers after being enticed onto the supposedly fashionable internet [...]

July 9, 2016 // 0 Comments

Some call it progress

In this era of supposed gender equality it sometimes seems as if there’s been little progress in human relationships and ‘the battle of the sexes’. Here’s a link to an article by Barbara Ellen that appears today upon the website of – THE GUARDIAN Sometimes we like to kid ourselves that [...]

April 24, 2016 // 0 Comments

When push comes to shove …

Sometimes in life – and in the world’s press or social media – it becomes a case of ‘You couldn’t make it up’. Over the past fortnight I’ve noticed stories on the classier newspaper websites about the prospect that, in the not too far off future, not only will women be able to [...]

April 5, 2016 // 0 Comments

Men are from Mars? Well, from some distant planet certainly

Sometimes – especially during the festive period when we ladies bear the brunt of the multi-tasking organising, buying and arranging – you just have to laugh. Here’s a link to an article that I spotted today on the subject of men shopping at a certain lingerie store that tickled [...]

December 23, 2015 // 0 Comments

Cause for concern

The subject of paedophilia has always been as troubling one for human society for all sorts of reasons – even over the past week boxer Tyson Fury has caused a media storm by making public un-PC comments about a number of things, including homosexuality. In his case, as I understand it, weight was [...]

December 11, 2015 // 0 Comments

Time to get real?

These days the fashion industry may pay lip service to political correctness when it comes to models and dress sizes, but leopards don’t change their spots. It was ever thus during my days in Fleet Street (and yes, I was around when Twiggy first hit the headlines) but I couldn’t [...]

October 24, 2015 // 0 Comments

Don’t shoot the messenger

Sassy rock singer Chrissie Hynde – she of Pretenders and sometime marriages to the Kinks’ Ray Davies and Jim Kerr of Simple Minds fame [and by the way I don’t care a fig that the sisterhood might seek to take me to task for defining her by her marriages to well-known men – I’m solely [...]

August 31, 2015 // 0 Comments

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