When Alison Phillips was a younger journalist she would inform colleagues she was going out to meet a contact on the other side of the city before heading to her home district in London to see her child perform in a school sports day or nativity play.
Today as editor of the mass-circulation Daily Mirror and chair of the U.K.’s Women in Journalism network, she does all she can to ensure female staff are not forced to cover their tracks in such a way in order to fulfill their parental responsibilities.