Lazy Wage Gap Sunday
April 1, 2012 No CommentsIs the wage gap just caused by women picking the wrong career?
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Women Aren’t Pussies In The Patch
March 9, 2012 No CommentsWomen are entering more and more fields that were previously considered part of the male-only domain. One industry I would imagine most women would not want to work in is the oil and gas industry. But they’re there and their numbers are growing. Take Tammy Kehl – she is the operations engineering lead for an oil company in ...
Gear Up For The Geisha Rebirth
February 7, 2012 No CommentsIf you thought geishas were as dead as the dinosaurs, think again. Increasingly, Japanese women are rejecting the conventional path of love and marriage. Some choose to focus on career advancement, and becoming a geisha is now a very real aspiration for some young women. In Shimoda, a hot spring resort on Japan’s Pacific coast, which ...
Late Parenthood: A Risky Business For Men Too
January 17, 2012 No CommentsWomen and men, it seems, are in the same boat on the sea of fertility. As we age, the ride to parenthood gets rockier. We most often talk about women’s bodies being ticking time bombs, but just as a woman’s “fecundity and fertility starts to decline precipitously after 32, a man’s semen quality and fertility also ...
Not Enough Women In IT
December 1, 2011 No CommentsAccording to recent research, the IT sector may be a better career choice for women than it appears at first glance. So why are less women entering the field and record numbers of women leaving it? Society doesn’t really seem to encourage women to study or excel at maths or science. And if less women ...
Canadian Women Have Educations, Not Kids
December 1, 2011 2 CommentsMany women are putting kids on the back burner until they get an education and career. The consequence? Some women are left childless. But there’s new evidence that educated women, for the most part, are actually having more kids. Canada is the odd woman out. While women in the US are getting an education without ...
Lazy Mother Sunday Post
November 20, 2011 No CommentsWe are constantly told that childhood isn’t what is used to be. We are either being spoiled, or forced to grow-up early. Yet we rarely take the time to look at the mothers whose job has changed substantially in the last few decades. Everyone feels like the other generation has it better, so let’s take ...
For Working Moms, Staying Afloat Takes A Team
September 21, 2011 No CommentsAs much as we all want supermoms to exist (and want to be one ourselves), everyone needs a little help from their loved ones. Although there’s daycare and nannies, some women cannot afford to pay for childcare. So they rely on “Team Mom,” a close-knit network of friends and family, to help them out. A ...
Women Can Man The Farm Too
September 20, 2011 No CommentsWhen you picture what a farmer looks like, I wouldn’t be surprised if you think of a burly man with steel toe boots and coveralls riding around on some sort of heavy-duty machinery. But all that is changing, so it’s time to toss aside the stereotypes and forget the “norm.” In Michigan, more women are ...
Quote Of The Week
September 12, 2011 No CommentsPeople think at the end of the day that a man is the only answer [to fulfillment]. Actually a job is better for me. ~ Princess Diana
