A mother was been suspended from her job for 18 months and given a police caution for leaving her 14-year-old son in charge of her three-year-old son while she went shopping. For half an hour. With no incidents or injuries during that time. She was even banned from working with children for ten years, but after ...
The British government has unleashed yet another obstacle for working mothers everywhere. Two female police officers, both mothers, have been taking turns caring for each others’ children while one of them works. Their arrangement has been declared illegal and the Department for Children, Schools, and Families (DCSF) wants them to each register as a child ...
Toni Morrison’s novel Beloved arrived in my hands via a public library, when I was a broke teenager with...
My attention was drawn this week to an article about the reaction at a Canadian university to proposals to...
Airport security. Bloody nuisance. Also a conspiracy designed to subjugate women. Allow me to elaborate. Despite flying quite a...
The Cannes film festival has kicked off this week with controversy over the lack of films made by women...
Dear Madame X, I seem to be only attracted to men who are macho assholes. I like them at...
When A Clockwork Orange was published in 1962, the term sexualized violence wasn’t in use. The distinction between sexualized...
Skincare. Not so very long ago, a man would have been mocked mercilessly for using just the word, never...
Laptop bags; conspiracy of the patriarchal overlords. Oh yes. I am a woman with hands. The average-sized hands of...
