{"id":1502,"date":"2018-07-11T08:44:10","date_gmt":"2018-07-11T07:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/tynemouth\/?p=1502"},"modified":"2018-07-14T08:05:15","modified_gmt":"2018-07-14T07:05:15","slug":"wbhs-soroptimists-inspired-by-dame-vera-baird-qc-mbe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/tynemouth\/2018\/07\/11\/wbhs-soroptimists-inspired-by-dame-vera-baird-qc-mbe\/","title":{"rendered":"WBHS Soroptimists inspired by Dame Vera Baird QC MBE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/tynemouth\/files\/2018\/07\/IMG_4206-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1484 aligncenter\" src=\"\/tynemouth\/files\/2018\/07\/IMG_4206-1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/tynemouth\/files\/2018\/07\/IMG_4206-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/tynemouth\/files\/2018\/07\/IMG_4206-1.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Thirteen girls from the newly formed WBHS Soroptimists group (Whitley Bay High School) attended an after school meeting with Dame Vera Baird QC, MBE.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>Dame Vera told them how she had come from a poor family and was the first to go to university and how she thought about a few different things like medicine before deciding on law, what it was like to be a junior barrister then a senior QC, then an MP\u00a0and Solicitor General. They were fascinated by her careers and\u00a0asked some searching questions including questions around any sex discrimination she had faced. She also gave them some insight into very high profile cases she had fought at the Old Bailey representing women who had murdered their husbands after being abused for years<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>We were there about 90 minutes (it was supposed to be 60 but they asked so many questions) She really related to the fact they are at a point in their lives where they need to make\u00a0choices about careers and she finished by telling\u00a0them they could be anything they wanted to be if they worked hard and to go out and conquer the world.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I asked them afterwards what they thought of the session\u00a0and they said they found her inspirational.<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thirteen girls from the newly formed WBHS Soroptimists group (Whitley Bay High School) attended an&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":625,"featured_media":1484,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>WBHS Soroptimists inspired by Dame Vera Baird QC MBE | News | Blog | Events | SI Tynemouth, Whitley Bay and District<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SI Tynemouth, Whitley Bay and District : Blog &amp; News : WBHS Soroptimists inspired by Dame Vera Baird QC MBE : Keep up to date with the latest news, articles and events from the Soroptimists of SI Tynemouth, Whitley Bay and District . 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