Category Archives: Baroness Deech

The view from New York

Baroness Deech 13/06/2013 – 1:25 pm

I have come to New York for a few days to deliver a paper on family law at an academic conference. There is a wider spread of opinion about family issues than is common at conferences at home. I have not visited for a number of years, and so quite a few things about the city strike me afresh. In no particular order - There are seats to be had on the subway trains, and they are air conditioned! […]

Kinder, Kuche, Kirche

Baroness Deech 04/04/2013 – 12:23 pm

Since the very welcome announcement by the Chancellor that there is to be a little tax relief on childcare for working mothers, the Daily Telegraph seems to be running a campaign against them.  Day after day, stories and letters about discrmination against stay-at-home mums, as they call them, and nothing presenting the other side.  Giving a tax break on expenditure is hardly discrimination aga […]

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Baroness Deech 26/03/2013 – 12:51 pm

The Good is the wonderful news that finally, after a century or so of women's liberation, after decades of legislation to ensure women's full place in the employment market and in higher education - we have got some tax relief on childcare costs.  Very little and coming rather late, but it is an important recognition that the strides that women made are to be maintained.  There have been lots o […]

The woman question

Baroness Deech 11/03/2013 – 9:07 pm

The last few days have seen a number of women's issues raised, as International Women's Day and Mothering Sunday were marked.  It has all been rather gloomy.  In the Lords on Thursday last, there were three questions about women.  The first was about women and sport, where it seemed that sport for women was either diminishingly popular, or, when about to flourish was being frustrated.  For e […]

How not to win friends and influence people

Baroness Deech 03/03/2013 – 5:56 pm

Another week, another campaign by members of the public to get me to vote one way or another on a certain issue.  Of course we peers welcome the views of the public, and as a crossbencher I am not whipped, I am not bound to vote in any particular way except as my conscience dictates.  So it is very interesting and important when people, or organisations write to me to explain an issue in a Bill […]