We have all joked that one day women will take over the world. But that day may come sooner than we think. Economists and sociologists have been predicting that women will surpass men in salary and become bread winners by 2020. And it’s not just experts who have such esteemed predictions for women — it’s ...
While we celebrate the large and even small triumphs of the women’s rights movement, sometimes we want to see the bigger picture. On a worldwide scale, is life improving for women? The World Bank says yes, but at a painfully slow rate. As it stands right now, “women perform 66 percent of the world’s work, produce 50 ...
Small changes in legislation can positively affect women’s lives. Take India for example. In 1993, a law was implemented requiring that a third of all local government council seats be held by women. The hope behind the legislation was that “women’s status might improve” by putting them in positions of influence and power where they ...
Even though we’ve seen an increase in househusbands, some men still feel pressure to be the breadwinner and society isn’t exactly arguing otherwise. A husband’s uneasiness about staying at home while his wife goes off to work could lead to trouble in paradise. Men are more likely to file for divorce and women are more ...
Stay-at-home dads still may not be the norm, but they’re on the rise. Despite sixty-five percent of Canadians holding the traditional belief that women should run the household, the number of househusbands has tripled in the past 30 years, according to Statistics Canada. The transition to embrace a household founded on gender equality has been ...
Anytime I took a writing class, we were warned against using one word: nice. It was shot down for being generic, non-descript and incredibly imprecise. It was the word you used when you had no vocabulary. I’d often thought the backlash against “nice” had been a bit overplayed but the book Nice Girls Just Don’t Get ...
Men have always complained about paying their ex-wives alimony. They have to work longer hours to shell out spousal support for a relationship that’s long over. Well, the tables have been turned and successful women with big bank accounts are bitter, explains an msn article. It’s easy enough to say that men have been doing ...
When food writer Nigella Lawson said that her bakery cookbook How To Be A Domestic Goddess, should be read as a feminist tract, it made more than one person shudder. How could baking, the activity that epitomizes the way women have been belittled and underestimated in the past, be feminist? Lagusta Yearwood at The Guardian ...
So, we’re having this baby. It’s due in a few weeks and we’re trying to get organized with all...
I recently heard about what is claimed to be the rising phenomenon of Japanese men remaining virgins for longer...
Ladders. Patriarchal conspiracy. I’ll explain… This week I climbed a ladder. I was trying to reach a loft space,...
Dear Madame X, My boyfriend needs to look at porn while we have sex. It bothers me because I...
Mrs. Dalloway is yet another feminist classic that I had to grow into. Wrapped up in Woolf’s instantly recognizable...
Last week saw a Big Thing come to our soggy little island. Well, it was a Big Thing for...
Last weekend I was entertaining a guest, you know, the sort I was planning to have lots and lots...
All little girls want to be princesses… right?! It’s bad enough that toy aisles are separated out by what...
