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1.5 Million Women Take On Wal-Mart

1.5 Million Women Take On Wal-Mart

December 7, 2010 No Comments

The largest sex discrimination case in US legal history may end up with 1.5 million women taking on Wal-Mart. The case started with only six women claiming that female workers were “paid less and promoted less often than men”, but once word got around a huge portion of Wal-Mart staff wanted to join up and ...

Pay Equality Still An Issue In Daghenam

Pay Equality Still An Issue In Daghenam

September 23, 2010 No Comments

Hollywood is soon going to be telling the story of sexual equality at work through the movie Made In Dagenham. This movie is going to be released in October and is about a group of women in the UK who went on strike from the Ford factory after finding out that their pay was 15% ...

Women Paid Less For 57 More Years

Women Paid Less For 57 More Years

August 20, 2010 No Comments

The Equal Pay Act was created in Britain forty years ago to help reduce the salary differences between men and women. A study was just released to say that male and female salaries will not be equal until at least 2067! The Chartered Management Institute (CMI) surveyed over 43,000 employees in 197 organizations. Some findings: senior ...

British Fathers To Get Six Months Paternity Leave From 2011

British Fathers To Get Six Months Paternity Leave From 2011

January 29, 2010 1 Comment

The British Government is going to allow fathers and mothers to share parental leave with up to three of the legal nine months being available to fathers and an additional three months unpaid. It’s about time fathers got some official recognition for their importance in the early life of their children.

A Beloved Novel

Toni Morrison’s novel Beloved arrived in my hands via a public library, when I was a broke teenager with...

The University Men’s Non-Wanker Centre

My attention was drawn this week to an article about the reaction at a Canadian university to proposals to...

The Patriarchal Overlords And Your Shoes

Airport security. Bloody nuisance. Also a conspiracy designed to subjugate women. Allow me to elaborate. Despite flying quite a...

Lack Of Female Film-Makers Is Not Gender Bias

The Cannes film festival has kicked off this week with controversy over the lack of films made by women...

Why Macho Men Are Sexy

Dear Madame X, I seem to be only attracted to men who are macho assholes. I like them at...

Fifty Years Of A Clockwork Orange

When A Clockwork Orange was published in 1962, the term sexualized violence wasn’t in use. The distinction between sexualized...

Why Manly Skincare Is Better

Skincare. Not so very long ago, a man would have been mocked mercilessly for using just the word, never...

Laptop Bags: Too Big And Too Sparkly

Laptop bags; conspiracy of the patriarchal overlords. Oh yes. I am a woman with hands. The average-sized hands of...

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