This book by Helena Kennedy QC is a detailed discussion of how our legal system treats women. Baroness Kennedy is a leading barrister and she gives insightful detail into her own experiences as a female lawyer and the everyday sexism she has encountered in her career. She also takes a wider look at how the way our law is written and enforced can discriminate against women.

In my twenties, I faced fertility issues, stemming from polycystic ovaries. Oh, so maybe I was right to ask about the pain I had since I was 16. Interesting. I didn’t know the term medical gaslighting at that time or that women are far more likely to have our symptoms dismissed or ignored. But I found myself reading some sentences twice due to the absurdity of some of Kennedy's allegations. It is not enough to say 'no'. Men hear a challenge to their masculinity in the sound. As a person who has read widely on the topic of feminism, I can say that there are far more complex articles or books that don't include such radical opinions and still have a point. Because, honestly, we cannot argue that all men react in the same way to the same event, especially when talking about their feelings. Kennedy seems to want to make topics like men and psychology seem easy when, in fact, they're not. Profiles of companies doing interesting work in Women’s Health. The innovation going on right now is nothing short of inspirational and desperately needed. Keep in mind what Eve sees for herself after the snake hisses in her ear that if you eat the forbidden fruit, “You will not die…[rather,] your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God” — meaning like an adult. Adults, after all, can appear quite godlike sometimes to young children. And like an innocent child, Eve had probably never previously dared to go anywhere near the forbidden tree — not for any sophisticated adult reason, but because her “God-Parent” said so. But with the serpent’s encouragement, she boldly crosses the boundary put in place by an authority figure, and the Bible itself tells us that sheThe first time I heard the term pelvic floor, I thought to myself. Do I have one? Or do I need to get one? If I have one, do I need to get it refinished from time to time? Where is it?!? Thanks for joining us for the invite-only launch. We look forward to evolving based on what we learn and what we hear from you. Women – whether criminals or victims – are still subject to the most antiquated of double standards. “It is hard to get across the idea that a woman is entitled to have sex with the whole of the football team, but draw the line at the goalie,” writes Kennedy, with characteristic bite. Rape victims have their compensation reduced if they were drunk. Meanwhile, girls are being institutionalised (unlike adult courts, youth courts can sanction behaviour that is not technically criminal but may harm a child’s development) for behaviours that in their male contemporaries would be dismissed as “boys will be boys” but in girls are seen as evidence of dangerous moral turpitude.

For now, I’ll leave you with these words from Kripal on the fruit that he hopes is being born out of his work at the intersection of academic rigor and mystical experience. He hopes that The Tasting Menu.Topics each week to learn more about your body and health. Remember that Pelvic Floor question?That’s one of the topics we’ll cover.Your time is valuable. We’re doing the reading and sharing the knowledge Where was my health class for fertility, family building, post-partum, breastfeeding, uterine health, perimenopause, menopause, post-menopause? A fascinating look at the way in which the legal system is institutionally sexist and the impact that has on the women who pass through it. Kennedy shares her own experience of coming up as one of the few female barristers and the ways in which archaic traditions are limiting the pipeline of female lawyers who could become tomorrow's judges - and thus the system is perpetuated.Police, lawyers and judges still have difficulties in abandoning their stereotype of the abused woman as someone who is submissive and cowed. When the woman appears competent or has a bit of gumption or if she seems to be materially well-off, there is a failure of the imagination as to how she could be victimised. Lawyers still say of a battered woman 'She is a middle-class woman. It is not as though she could not afford alternative accommodation.'" But women don’t have confidence in the justice system. And going by the litany of horrors that Kennedy details in this relentless, often disturbing book, no wonder. Early stage research led by scientists from the universities of Cambridge, Exeter and Copenhagen might have insights into the age at which women enter menopause. ( from The Guardian) Similarly, you may have heard of Meg Wolitzer’s 2014 novel The Interestings, which has been getting a lot of buzz. Her earlier 2005 novel The Position, which was also well-reviewed, is about the children of parents, who (before they had children) published a book together about their sex lives. Wolitzer’s novel tells the story of this couple’s four children, ages 6 to 15, stumbling upon this book in 1975 and how it differently effects each of them for the rest of their lives — given the different ages at which they are in 1975 when they encounter the “knowledge” in this age-inappropriate book, which we could think of as a contemporary version of the “forbidden fruit.”