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 ...
In honour of May, 4, the day that recognizes how important midwives are worldwide, it is even more important to recognize what happens in countries without midwives or access to reliable healthcare. Tanzania, for example, has a dangerously low number of women’s health care professionals and midwives. Because of this, it is one of the ...
The phrase “working mother” is redundant. ~Jane Sellman
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 ...
You have to hand it to Beyoncé and Jay-Z for entering the parenthood phase of their lives with style and grace. Instead of making millions off of Blue Ivy’s first moments, essentially turning their newborn into a cash cow, they post the intimate pictures on Tumblr to share their little babe with the world on ...
Last week a member of Canada’s Parliament did the unthinkable. No, she didn’t infringe on anyone’s rights, didn’t offend any minorities or start any wars. NDP MP Sana Hassainia brought her 3-month-old son to work. Gasp! Don’t women, especially female politicians, know that you’re not supposed to remind people that you have a uterus! Controversy started when ...
Today is the 39th anniversary of Roe vs. Wade, the court case that made abortion legal in the USA. In honour of this day we are posting a video that explains some of the facts about who really gets abortions (not teenagers) and why (poverty and already having too many children to look after), in ...
Having a good relationship with your mom may benefit more than your emotional health. Bonding with your mom could actually keep you thin, according to a new study. After tracking 977 children, researchers found that toddlers who lacked strong emotional bonds with their mothers were twice as likely to become obese by the age of ...
Most of us want some extra cash to help out around the house, but few of us turn to the sex industry. But it looks like the phone sex industry might be an exception. A survey says that many stay-at-home moms are turning to phone sex as a career that’s easily manageable with kids and ...
Time‘s Person of the Year is “The Protestor.” Fair enough. Nobody can deny it was a year where people expressed dissatisfaction. The protestor can be anyone — man or woman. But when you take the protestor out of the equation to look at other candidates for the Person of the Year title, there’s a notable absence of ...
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...
Skincare. Not so very long ago, a man would have been mocked mercilessly for using just the word, never...
Laptop bags; conspiracy of the patriarchal overlords. Oh yes. I am a woman with hands. The average-sized hands of...
