The Women's Organisation

17/10/2026

A huge thank you to Captain Christine Dow and her brilliant easyJet team, pictured here with our CEO, Maggie O’Carroll, on a recent flight from Belfast to Liverpool.

Maggie witnessed the Glasgow native and her cabin crew supporting a passenger who appeared distressed and vulnerable, showing exceptional professionalism, compassion and care.

“Sitting nearby, I couldn’t help but overhear the patience and kindness shown by Captain Dow and her team. Their concern for the passenger’s wellbeing was clear. It was a wonderful example of thoughtful leadership and people looking after people.”

easyJet you are lucky to have such outstanding colleagues. Captain Dow and her team deserve recognition for the care and humanity they bring to their work. 👏 Liverpool John Lennon Airport Belfast City Airport

14/10/2026

A urine test that could cut diagnosis from nine years to days. 100-year-old medical assumptions overturned. Non-invasive scans replacing surgery.

After years of little progress, 2026 is officially the year of endometriosis breakthroughs.

Why? How?! And crucially... can these breakthroughs set the blueprint for the future of women's health research?

Read our breakdown here: https://www.thewomensorganisation.org.uk/the-endometriosis-breakthroughs-of-2026/

13/10/2026

Congratulations to Navi Pillay, winner of the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize. 👏🏆

At 85, the South African jurist is honoured for her work promoting peace and international law. Pillay was the first non-white woman appointed a High Court judge in South Africa, and went on to serve on the Rwanda tribunal, the International Criminal Court and as UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.

She sat on the landmark ruling that found r**e can be an act of genocide.

Only 21 women have ever won the Nobel Peace Prize, against 92 men. She is the first South African woman to win, and the third woman in four years.

Pillay was told she’d won while at her desk as the Nobel Committee had been unable to reach her. Her reaction was that it “must be a joke!"

Certainly not. Fantastic to see a woman who spent decades assisting international law to protect victims of atrocity take the prize. 🙌

06/10/2026

Here we go again 🙄

2 women and 29 men deciding the future of technology that will impact safety, law, healthcare, and workforce security.

This wasn’t just a corporate CEO gathering, it included major government officials and policy leads. But women were massively underrepresented across both policy and governance.

While tech leadership remains male-dominated, there are plenty of female AI leaders, academics, and researchers who could have been at that table.

Studies show that equal representation delivers better risk management and outcomes.

A technology that affects half the population requires representative voices to stop its development from becoming skewed.

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02/10/2026

02/10/2026

Dean Atta, one of the most celebrated Black q***r writers in Britain (and BAFTA winning we might add), is reading in L8 on Tuesday night!

Atta is the poet whose 2012 poem responding to the Stephen Lawrence case spread across social media and led to a profile in The Guardian.

He's the author of The Black Flamingo, the verse novel that won a Stonewall Book Award and is still loved by young readers across the UK.

He's been named one of the UK's 100 most influential LGBT people by The Independent and his work has been heard on BBC Radio 4 and commissioned by Tate Britain, Tate Modern and the National Portrait Gallery.

We could go on - across poetry, memoir, fiction and film, Dean has spent his career telling complex, joyful, Black q***r stories, with a Greek Cypriot and Jamaican heritage that runs all through his writing.

Now he's coming to Liverpool to open Writing on the Wall's Black History Month programme with Big Man, his tender, funny adult debut about a middle-aged Black gay man in East London whose quiet life is upended by his past.

As always, tickets are truly inclusive and are kept lower than the cost of a pint so everyone can attend.

📅 Tuesday 6th October
🕖 7:00pm
📍 The Black-E, Liverpool
🎟️ £5 – https://writingonthewall.org.uk/myevents/bhm-2026-dean-atta-big-man/

30/09/2026

When yarn speaks louder than words 😆🧶

A post reshared by womensart highlights a visual experiment by Mayor Sue Montgomery during City Council meetings.

To track airtime in the chamber, she knitted red yarn when a man spoke and green when a woman spoke.

Despite near-equal representation in the room (31 women and 34 men), her resulting scarf was overwhelmingly red.

Sue did make a later point that she felt the women in the group got just as much across - just more succinctly! 😅

But it’s a reminder that having a “seat at the table” does not always guarantee an equal share of voice or influence.

Take from it what you will. Does anyone still feel they struggle to get airtime in workplace meetings?

18/09/2026

Today is International Equal Pay Day - and fittingly, the UN Women Gender Snapshot report has landed.

Unfortunately, not one single SDG 5 (gender equality) indicator is on track for 2030, and 1 in 3 gender-equality institutions have had their power stripped in just two years.

On the other hand, the gender pay gap IS closing vert very slowly (around 0.2 to 0.5 percentage points annually).

Equalising pay isn't just its own goal. It's one of the fastest ways to move the needle on all of those SDGs, because unequal pay ripples into everything: pension poverty, unequal roles at home and at work, and less freedom to move, relocate, or leave situations that aren't safe.

Closing the pay gap gives women more room to make their own choices, at every stage of life. 💛

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