Main Rag week marching bands as a drum majorette at Exeter College made Teresa Rees curious, on a go to to a army institution because the Equal Alternatives Commissioner for Wales, to search out out why feminine recruits have been struggling hip irritation and typically dislocation.
She found that they have been marching in accordance with the regulation stride for the armed forces, calculated on the premise of the common stride of males. Ladies have been due to this fact overstriding throughout their whole coaching. This got here to encourage her specific strategy to gender mainstreaming.
One other inspiration in her life and work was her mom who, though she was concerned within the household clothes enterprise throughout Terry’s childhood, had labored at Bletchley Park through the second world battle, and later served as a parliamentary aide for a few years.
Paul Drew
I first met Teresa Rees pretty quickly after I moved to Cardiff within the late Nineteen Seventies, once we each grew to become concerned in initiatives monitoring and evaluating the vary of programmes being developed to assist younger unemployed folks.
The truth that we have been capable of work collectively on a challenge was fairly uncommon given we have been from totally different disciplines and establishments, and mirrored her concentrate on the work in hand reasonably than the inner politics.
Nonetheless, maybe my fondest reminiscence of Terry is of taking part in desk tennis collectively one night after a protracted day at a convention. It was a method of holding our spirits up in what have been pretty robust occasions each in universities and extra extensively as unemployment saved climbing.
Charles Jackson
