Ambition, leadership and sexism are all under discussion in the new season of the #HowIDidIt podcast series
In the new episode of #HowIDidIt, Linda Cullen recalls what the country was like when she left school at 16 in the 1980s and began getting work in TV production. “I had a really strong feminist mom,” Cullen says. “She wouldn't have taken any nonsense. She was predominantly a single mom. But she was paid less than any other guy. She knew she was paid less. You knew it was wrong. But you worked your way around it. That was my experience anyway, in the ‘80s. There was lots of discrimination and plenty of harassment. That was the norm in the ‘80s and ‘90s.
Sarah Durcan -- associate director of Science Gallery International and previously a lead organiser of the Waking the Feminist movement -- agrees with that assessment.