MENTORS: Although I was taught by a man, and my two main mentors were men, thinking back I think it was the women in leadership roles who encouraged me the

Why is it that there is an even gender balance among ringers in the early stages of ringing, but the gender distribution changes at more “advanced levels”?

I got

I think of myself as a “started too late in life (when I was in my 60s) ringer”, rather than as a “female” ringer.  Gender does not come into it

It was a dark and stormy night, as the story goes. This was my second year living in this city, and I had become enchanted by the music of church

My experience was that the discrimination when I learned to ring (started 1999) was on the grounds of age rather than gender.

I started in my mid 40s in a