Great news for mothers came just in time for Mothers Day this weekend. Mothers and caretakers in the UK who choose to stay home and raise kids will receive a full pension. Those who retire after 2015 will be treated as if they have worked their whole lives. This is a huge step for women ...
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 ...
A woman who was fired an hour after revealing she was pregnant to her boss has been told that her pregnancy was not a factor in her losing her job. The case is currently being heard by the Human Rights Commission in Canada. Her bosses say that she was already earmarked for dismissal because they ...
According 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 ...
Many 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 ...
One quarter of all women with degrees in the United States end up childless. That is a lot. It hardly seems like something to worry about when the average American woman has 2.1 children. It’s enough to replace the population with a little room to spare. Yet we are currently in the middle of a ...
A woman has been sacked in the UK for refusing to wear make-up at work, and she’s decided that’s just not right. Melanie Stark was a retail assistant at department store Harrods before she was unceremoniously dumped for daring to show her bare face in public. Now she’s taken her case to the media and ...
Who said women couldn’t make awesome businesswomen? Turns out they are in possession of one of the most valuable commodities, breast milk. So those who can sell it on the Internet in exchange for quite a bit of cash. Called a mother’s natural liquid gold, a month’s supply of milk can cost anywhere from $300 ...
The American workplace is still unfair for breastfeeding mothers according to a new study by public health researchers from the University of South Carolina. Research shows that women who take longer maternity leaves breastfeed longer. Many health organizations recommend breastfeeding for at least six months and up to two years while introducing the baby to ...
We often hear talk of women breaking through the glass ceiling, of achieving complete equality with men, of no longer requiring feminism. But a recent study shows that despite women getting the same education as men, and quite often kicking their butts at it, when women enter the workforce they’re still being paid less. Females ...
The latest film in the American Pie series, American Reunion, contains a shocking scene – male full-frontal nudity including...
Dear Madame X, I have just started seeing this girl. She seems great, but she recently told me she...
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...
