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Job hunting is scary as a greying, middle-aged woman, but for now I’m ditching the dye | Donna Carton

High-profile women with naturally grey hair are few – it doesn’t conform to the narrow social standards of female beauty
‘Defying the societal expectations born of years of patriarchy and sexism, I have continued grombreying, if I can manufacture a verb.’ Photograph: Gary John Norman/Getty Images/Image Source

My quiet Covid rebellion is – as feminist fightbacks go – a rather low-key affair.

In my 20s I Reclaimed the Streets with the best of them. Bra-burning has been done, and besides, I consider mine critical weaponry in the Great Gravity War.

My iso struggle, however, is not entirely lacklustre. It has a little sparkle, a sprinkle

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