In general I have spent my life bucking the trend on what girls and women are expected to do (sports, hobbies, career, temperament, family – well lack if it). For

One of the most beneficial things for fighting gender bias in ringing, in my opinion, is the presence of confident, skilled female ringers--as role models and as evidence against bias

I was lucky as a young ringer to have encouragement to learn to call touches, go on a conducting course, call some quarters and even a peal. I had good

In 1999 I moved to a new city, not knowing a soul, for work after college. I didn’t ring for 6 months but missed it so much I joined a

I asked my mum, a ringer of 60+ years, who her inspiration was and the response was three very well-known female ringers. I said
what about when you were a

I started to ring in a 10-bell tower with an RM who did not have a great deal of complex method knowledge or interest. I very nearly gave up until

I learnt to ring at a twelve bell tower in the mid 70’s, where we had a predominantly female band and a female tower captain.  We were
quite organised, some