Sophie Walker (@SophieRunning )

Sophie Walker

Bio Ex-Reuters journalist & @wep_uk leader. Now comms & campaigns deviser/advisor, writer. “Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.” - Marilyn Monroe
Location London, with Glasgow in mind
Tweets 21,4K
Followers 62,9K
Following 8,5K
Account created 10-06-2011 19:12:41
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Twitter Web App : So very, very many reports to tell us what we already know: Commissioning studies is so much easier than acknowledging sexism and doing something about it. ft.com/content/022eec…

Twitter for iPhone : Senior male execs who are shit at working from home (and don’t like having to be near their family) declaring against all evidence that therefore everyone is shit at working from home - hands up if you’ve seen this FOR YEARS AND YEARS 🙋‍♀️

Twitter for iPhone : It is my experience that all the people who use words like merit are the same people who don’t believe there is bias. The fact that so many of them are in positions of leadership is dismaying.
thetimes.co.uk/article/57a663…

Twitter for iPhone : Video right now on Al Jazeera channel.

Israeli forces seen to beat crowd of mourners carrying casket of Shireen Abu Akleh ahead of funeral in the Old City of East Jerusalem.

Twitter for iPhone : This government expects people applying for and surviving on welfare payments to be persistent, stoic and resourceful. What a shame there are not similar expectations of the Chancellor.

Twitter Web App : For this week's column i newspaper, I've written about the fate of Afghanistan's women - and our continued failure to include women at the highest level of diplomatic negotiations.

With thanks to the brilliant Fawzia Koofi for speaking to me.

inews.co.uk/opinion/we-ign…

Twitter Web App : Exclusive: Most of the UK has fallen further behind London & the South East since Boris Johnson became prime minister, a major blow for `levelling up' 1/ bloomberg.com/graphics/uk-le…

Twitter Web App : Aviva chief executive told she is 'not the man for the job.' by shareholders despite Aviva’s stock having risen by 40pc since she started, to reach a valuation of £15.4bn. She is their first female chief exec. telegraph.co.uk/business/2022/…