Its International Women's Day & having acknowledged my mother, I now want to mention a few other women who have shaped who I am:
* Susan Strange (political economist);
* Siobhan Collingwood (CEO Lancashire Women);
* Sarah Marsden (political scientist);
* Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (novelist & campaigner);
* Linda Nochlin (art historian)
* Susan Sell (co-author & political economist);
* Ann Pettifor (political economist);
* Susanne Soederberg (political scientist)