Top Girls: Can girls have it all?

The pressures on girls today are many and becoming increasingly complex: more than ever before there is an expectation that they can break through the glass ceiling and ‘have it all’: successful career, stable family life, happiness and health. But is this realistic? At what cost does such success come with?

How should we educate our girls for the future? What sort of school best prepares them for success in life: coeducational or single sex? Maintained or independent? How can they succeed in life without resorting to crude stereotypes that certain sectors of society are all to ready to impose on them? A girl’s time in school acts as the foundation for life: get it wrong and she sometimes never fulfils her hopes; get it right and success can be matched with fulfilment.

This important conference brings together some of the most successful and inspirational women you will hear to discuss how girls should be educated, and to ask how they can be happy. Leading figures from the media, academia, business and politics will talk with a female-only audience about the lessons they have learned in life. Your students will find their advice invaluable.

This conference is for girls only aged between 15 – 18 and numbers are limited; we are advertising it to all independent schools, and working with a number of state schools to ensure a broad range of experiences and outlooks. Please book early to ensure you – and your students – get a place. 

Speakers include:

Dr Catherine Hakim, author of Honey Money: the Power of Erotic Capital
http://www.catherinehakim.org/
http://www.penguin.co.uk/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9781846144196,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2011/aug/19/catherine-hakim-interview?intcmp=239

The Baroness Cox, CEO of HART (Humanitarian Aid Relief Fund)
http://www.hart-uk.org/
http://www.hart-uk.org/about_ourstaff.htm

Heather MacGregor, ‘Mrs Moneypenny’ from The Financial Times
http://www.mrsmoneypenny.com/index.html

Helena Morrisey, CEO of Newton Investment Management
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2011/jan/21/helena-morrissey-newton-friday-interview
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-05-23/morrissey-topples-old-boys-as-money-manager-with-nine-children.html

Dr Helen Wright, Head of St Mary’s Calne and Chair of GSA
http://www.stmaryscalne.org/
http://www.drhelenwright.com/blog/blog1.php

Brenda van Camp
Senior Director, International Head of Marketing Communications, Christie's

Any queries please contact our Conference Organiser, Tarla Woolhouse on 01344 444085 or email: tw@wellingtoncollege.org.uk