Women who work full time are already seeing their wages grow at twice the rate of men’s, according to the UK’s Office of National Statistics. If this rate keeps up, women’s pay will overtake men’s by the year 2020. That would be 50 years ahead of previous forecasts. This is just a prediction, and it may ...
Have you changed your name to your husband’s? Kept yours? Hyphenated? That’s fine and dandy, but how do you decide what to call the kids?! Here Reservoir Dad takes a look at this thorny issue. When I first started thinking about the “name change” issue — whether or not women and children should adopt their ...
With the abortion debate many of us take for granted raging on Prince Edward Island, I decided to go back in time a bit, when reproductive rights were a newly won battle and the female sexual experience was a subject not everyone spoke about. The stream of consciousness narrative in Andrea Dworkin’s Ice and Fire ...
We 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 ...
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 ...
Question: How many feminists does it take to screw in a light bulb? Answer: Hey, that’s not funny. This was a joke told to me by a guy I met at a party. I didn’t laugh at his joke because I knew that he actually believed what he was saying. He actually believed that feminists ...
Have you ever wondered what the world would be like if women controlled the power structure? Now you can find out. A new Google Chrome extension developed by Danielle Sucher lets you gender-bend the entire internet. Jailbreak the Patriarchy switches male names to female names and hims to hers. It is advanced enough to understand which words, like chicks, ...
If I had to describe the “type” of man I like, it would have to be feminist. Most of my good friends subscribe to some kind of feminism and as a self-identified straight woman, there is nothing better than a feminist man. Since high school, I found myself crushing on boys who were articulate and ...
Clara Belle used to be a beauty pageant protester. And now she is beauty queen. “A few months ago I would have been far more likely to be standing outside the Miss World venue protesting at the event than attending it,” she wrote. But when she entered the Miss London pageant in April to report ...
Yet another sex myth has been debunked! As it turns out, men are not actually intimidated by vibrators. A study of over 3,000 Americans ages 18 to 60 found that it is only a myth. In fact, the only people who really think that sex toys scare away men are women! Thirty-seven percent of women ...
It may be hilarious when every euphemism for a penis is thrown out there so we can all laugh...
I disposed of my TV in 2008. That doesn’t mean I don’t watch TV…I have internet and I know...
Dear Madame X, My girlfriend is friends with pretty much all her exes. It makes me really uncomfortable but...
Margaret Laurence’s last novel, The Diviners, provoked controversy amongst advocates of censorship when it first hit the shelves. In...
Making the case for why men should be in charge of women’s reproductive health. Women's Health Experts Speak Out...
As a stay-at-home-Dad who handles the majority of the household and child-rearing responsibilities I take note of any article,...
If you get moody and irritable when you first go on the pill, don’t lose hope. First of all,...
Now listen, there’s nothing nice about public restrooms. Nevermind the lovely scented one in that posh restaurant with a...
