Musings of a Perfectionist

Heya friends! I've been up to quite a lot recently (including finishing Draft One of my Maths coursework yesssss) and today, I decided to do some researching about women in the railway industry (to be fair, this is for a challenge badge but also I am interested in female empowerment and the state of equality/lack of in the railway industry is an excellent indication of general equality in Britain). So yeah. I found out a load about the railway industry and now you can too! At the birth of the railway near the beginning of the 19th Century (around the 1830s), the industry was structured in such a way to mirror how society worked. This meant that fathers and sons would follow each other into the industry while the women would become wives and mothers. They were, however, hired by rail companies to work although this work was prohibited to ‘women’s work’ such as cleaning and sewing. They were also able to be level crossing gatekeepers as it could be fitted in with family life - this p...

So yesterday was International Women's Day (also known as 'When's International Men's Day' Day) and also my friend's birthday (shout out to you, you amazing human being!), and I was going to write something about it... But obviously, I didn't. Sorry about that. In my defence, I have just had a week of mocks (nine in five days!) and so, when I got home, I sat and watched three episodes of Bones and drank a cup of tea. And so this is my International Women's post, only a day late. First off, I'd like to say thank you to all those women in my life who have inspired me- my friends, my sisters, and mostly my mum. You're all wonderful, and don't let anyone tell you differently. (I was going to use an exclamation point here, but I've already used one this post and I have this thing about exclamation points...perhaps another time I will explain) This post is mostly about different body types and body positivity, as it's something th...