Justice is served, although it took 28 years to get there. Women of the Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) were reinstated $150 million for unequal pay today after a long battle that began in 1983. The PSAC filed a complaint after they found that male clerical workers were getting paid more than female workers ...
Winning the fight for equal pay is central to reaching gender equality. But what if the wage gap wasn’t just the result of gender discrimination? What if we women were creating it? Kay Hymowitz argues that women are choosing to work less hours on less demanding jobs than men, especially when they’ve started a family. ...
Since women entered the workforce they have been paid less than their male peers. At times, measly pay was passed off as a war relief effort, others it was because women’s jobs were considered unskilled; some women were even blamed for not bargaining for higher wages while countless others were edged out of their jobs ...
1.5 million women can’t be right. The Supreme Court Justices ruled for Walmart today in a case brought by women who were allegedly denied promotion and equal pay on the basis of gender. You can look at this decision in two different ways, but either way is disappointing. For one thing, this was the largest discrimination ...
The working world can be especially difficult for a woman — we are paid less, progress slower and have more domestic responsibilitie to juggle — but can you image what it must have been like to walk into an office in the 1970s? A Paycheck Of Your Own was written to help women make ...
We all know about the wage gap. In the US, women make 77 cents for every dollar a man makes. They don’t do much better in the UK, earning 79p for every pound their penis-carrying colleagues take home. It is estimated that women have to work 13 more years before retirement. But none of this ...
What is feminism’s next battle? Men. No, not fighting them, but championing their causes. After all, what’s good for the goose is good for the gander. Newsweek has declared the battle of the sexes over, and quoted Gloria Steinem saying: “Women’s liberation is men’s liberation too.” Apparently the fact that we need men is news ...
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...
