Catherine Mayer - bestselling author, award-winning journalist, and the co-founder of the Women’s Equality Party talking about her new book - Attack of the fifty foot women: How gender Equality can save the world!

Catherine Mayer was born in the US and has spent much of her life in London. She is a former Europe Editor and Editor at Large of TIME magazine and the author of Amortality: The Pleasures and Perils of Living Agelessly and the Sunday Times bestselling biography of Prince Charles Charles: The Heart of a King. In 2015 she co-founded the Women’s Equality Party with Sandi Toksvig.

On the 8th March - International Women’s Day she releases her third book - Attack of the fifty foot women: How gender Equality can save the world!

Show notes

• Her career and how it has been done accidentally!
• Falling into journalism, via a cash in hand job in the marketing department at The Economist before moving over to the editorial side.
• Spending 11 years at TIME Magazine before starting the Women’s Equality Party
• Being born in America before moving over to the UK
• Being a foreign correspondent while based from home in London
• Her start in journalism and the challenges she faced in the early eighties
• How she survived and managed to make a career from it
• Getting by, by becoming “one of the boys”
• Why she came more politicised 
• Working in a culture of conformity in order to get ahead and why we need to change the whole culture
• How the Women’s Equality Party came about
• WOW - The Women of the World Festival
• How a small party can make fundamental change and how UKIP proved that
• What it was like taking this idea for WE to the next stage
• How ignorance was bliss and also very helpful when setting up WE!
• How the initial interest on social media led to more than 250 people turning up to the first meeting
• What Catherine has learned from going through this whole experience
• Where the idea for her third book came from -  Attack of the fifty foot women: How gender Equality can save the world!
• Being an internationalist in outlook and how what happens in one country does impact on what happens in another
• Going through the process of writing the book and why she loves the research
• Being a tough girl when it comes to writing, no rest, no days off, starting at five in the morning, a short break in the afternoon and then more writing
• Iceland & how women stopping work changed the direction of gender equality for the whole country
• Why the WE party are organising a women’s day off in 2018
• Why 2018 is going to be a special year for women
• Starting my Masters in Women & Gender at Lancaster University in 2017 and graduating in 2018 (everything happens for a reason!)
• The stand out interviews from the book
• Her plans for the year ahead, including her UK Book tour!
• BREATHE!
• EAT!
• SLEEP!
• How Donald Trump has helped women in one way…
• Final words of advice, why this is a time for ACTION and why you should join the Women’s Equality Party.

 

Social Media

Catherine is on twitter @catherine_mayer 

Instagram @MayerofLondon

You can visit her website --> here!

 

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