The Womens Forum

The Women’s Forum

extends invitation to new members and welcomes new ideas. Any age, any discipline are welcome. Discussions are held in an informal and friendly atmosphere room. The forum is free.

The Women’s Forum meets at Graduate House on the 3rd Wednesday each month. The forum was founded by someone who found that when going to dinner parties with her husband, the women in the group scarcely got a look-in in the conversation. At the forum, everyone is welcome to speak. Only two rules need to be observed. The first is that, each person wanting to speak may do so for up to ten minutes without interruption, after which the session will transit to become an open discussion. Some attendees have preferred to join in at this stage where the discussion is general, having learnt something from the previous speakers. The other rule is that while regular attendance is encouraged, if something comes up, there is no need to apologise, though of course we like to know how people are. And if we can help. At every meeting we choose topics for future meetings. They are not particularly academic - just topics we have read about or heard about and would like to discuss in a friendly atmosphere, perhaps with people who are more informed than we are since we all have different backgrounds and experience. We arrive in time for a 10.30am start, finish about 12noon and have lunch at the Graduate House dining room, if we want to. For the last meeting of the year, we bring cartoons which have amused us from newspapers or magazines to share with the rest of the group. We would welcome new members to have fun with us and sometimes to share surplus fruit or jams.