Nicholas Gruen in Club Troppo has a New Year’s post on gender relations, which took me aback a bit. Not so much the post, but the comments. You have to read the whole post to get the flavour. My summary (which may be overly pointing out the parts that tookContinue Reading
Air New Zealand and Qantas have apparently banned men from sitting next to unaccompanied children on planes. The airlines say that “their rules reflect the concerns of parents, as well as child safety issues”. How likely is it that an unaccompanied child is going to be abused on a flight?Continue Reading
The Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of the Armed Forces has published a new book called “Women in an Insecure World“. I haven’t read the book, just the summary, but it has a horrifying catalogue of all the different ways in which women can be damaged in today’s world.Continue Reading
I had a meeting with a new client this afternoon. On the way up, I had been getting the briefing from my colleague about who the people were, X who the meeting is with, and Y and Z who might come, depending on what X decides (all male names). SoContinue Reading
I’m the main breadwinner in our family. My husband, E, takes care of our boys, and is also on our local council (which is a part-time, mainly evening, role). I’ve been wondering what impact that has on our boys’ understanding of the role of gender in our society. Neither ofContinue Reading
Rebel Dad loves to collect statistics on stay at home dads (in the US of course). Elizabeth at Half Changed World joined in with some income analysis. I found an interesting Australian survey, mostly about childcare. A table at the back shows the hours of work of mothers and fathers,Continue Reading
As I’ve mentioned before, I’m the breadwinner in our family. My husband stays at home and looks after the kids. So while I’ve got an impressive corporate job, I sometimes wonder whether I am advancing the cause of women and families generally in the workplace. Have I just bought intoContinue Reading
Jody over at Raising WEG has a new post about surnames, and why she changed her surname when she got married. I didn’t change mine, which seemed a very simple decision at the time. It’s only later it seems more complex. It meant though, that we had long long discussionsContinue Reading
Laura at 11d has a post asking whether feminism has been a success. A big question, but an interesting one. In my personal experience, my life has been much less predicated on my gender than my mother’s was. She gave up her PhD at age 26 to marry my father,Continue Reading
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