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Today is International Women's day - Hurray! As you well know by now, here at MTAM we aim to encourage and spur you on to be a brilliant mum but also to rediscover your identity as a woman at the same time - something that can sometimes be lost or at least a little pushed aside when we become mums.  So ...

I'm sure the special report, Sex and Power: Who Runs Britain? – published by Counting Women In, this week that revealed the shocking absence of women from UK public life did not escape many people's notice, especially if you happen to be a woman!   The report showed that women are decreasing their representation in society and increasingly being excluded ...

I have read a few articles in the last week or so and they, plus a comment about my new haircut, got me thinking about women and appearance.  I am not one for appearances.  I hardly ever wear make-up; my clothing choices are mainly based on comfort and practicality over fashion and I get my hair cut about twice a ...

We've had quite a few posts lately catering for our 'mum' sides so I thought I'd do one specifically to remind you all once again that you are brill mums but also you are 'More than a Mum'. I read an interesting article today written by a man (Yashar Ali) as a message to all women that they are not crazy.  ...

During the opening ceremony I tweeted about the fact that London 2012 is the first games with female parity and that prompted much discussion.  That combined with the fact that a woman, cyclist Lizzie Armitstead, won team GB its first medal today; women’s football was the first event of the 2012 Olympics; and the personal fact that OH and I ...

On Thursday last week we gained a new follower on Twitter in the form of @MoMLondon.  As usual, I pottered over to say thank you for following us and have a look at who our newest follower was, and then I realised that MoM stood for Museum of Motherhood.  How could More than a Mum not be interested in a ...

Today on More than a Mum we have a guest post from Fiona.  Fiona is definitely 'More than a Mum'.  She writes her own blog at Peeling an apple and also makes pretty things for her jewellery website Morgan and Pink.  Her post today is on the Time magazine article "Are you Mom enough" I know that there has been ...

         Last week I read a post which, as both a mum and a woman really shocked me.  It is about a law which suppresses women and pushes back the cause for equality and women’s rights.  This law, however, has not been debated in a fundamentalist state or developing nation, this is being debated in the USA. The post I read ...

And the people in the houses All went to the university, Where they were put in boxes And they came out all the same, And there's doctors and lawyers, And business executives, And they're all made out of ticky tacky And they all look just the same. Second verse of the satirical song ‘Little Boxes’ by Malvina Reynolds (1963). The singer Annie Lennox recently suggested that the word feminism ...

Here at More than a Mum we like to take on challenging issues and you may have noticed that every now and then we take on a slightly feminist hue. Well today is one of those days. By feminist, I don’t mean the bra-burning, or men-hating, or female domination kind often mis-portrayed in the media.  I mean the “women can ...