Chapter: Play

Breaking the bias in early years to create an equitable future

Esther Marshall, Girls’ rights campaigner and former Global Lead for Gender Diversity and Inclusion at Unilever

On a recent Saturday morning, I was woken at 6am by my three-year-old yelling from his room, ‘Mamma, is it Tom’s party yet?’ I rolled over, half asleep, to check my diary, thinking to myself, ‘No darling that’s next week’, but how wrong I was. Sitting …

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