Gender Category
Time Out
Posted on March 8, 2018 Leave a Comment
On International Women’s Day, 8th March 2018, I was asked by Time Out magazine to choose two women I would like to thank for inspiring me. It was incredibly difficult to just choose two, and I was tempted to simply thank the amazing women in my family. Instead, I thought it would be a fabulous […]
Speech given at Women’s March on London
Posted on March 1, 2017 1 Comment
On 21st January 2017 I opened the Women’s March on London with a speech about global political challenges and the power women in unifying humanity and to bring about change. This was the first time that I had spoken to such a large crowd – the Met Police estimated around one hundred thousand people marched […]
The mental health of British Muslim women
Posted on June 10, 2014 Leave a Comment
This is an edited version of a panel presentation that I gave to the Muslim Women’s Network (MWN), at their AGM on the 9th May 2014. In 2009 the CQC conducted a the sixth and last census of the ethnicity of inpatient NHS and independent mental health and learning disability patients. This census revealed that […]
Submission to Rashida Manjoo, Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women
Posted on June 2, 2014 2 Comments
In April 2014, United Nations Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women, undertook a two week investigative mission to the United Kingdom to study the manifestations of violence perpetrated in the family and in the community. I had the opportunity to submit to her my recommendations on issues she should query the government on and include […]
Why are young Asian girls invisible when it comes to Eating Disorders?
Posted on March 1, 2014 1 Comment
When I think of an eating disorder, the first thing that comes to mind is the image of a young white girl who is painfully thin. The word anorexia has become synonymous with eating disorders as are the emaciated images of anorexic girls who are most likely to be white. Given the negative reporting around […]
“Stay at home mum”?
Posted on June 20, 2013 Leave a Comment
Having been a mother who has worked, mostly full time, for the last ten years or so, I have just recently had another child and taken time out to concentrate on and dedicate all of my time to my family. Whilst juggling work and motherhood, I worked long hours – often 50 hour weeks, and […]
Akeela Ahmed MBE 