July 15, 2011
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 ...
Tags: breadwinner,
division of labor,
domestic labor,
gender equality,
gender roles,
Germany,
makeup,
maternity leave,
objectificaiton of women,
part-time work,
paternity leave,
quota,
sexism,
stay at home dad,
women in the workplace
June 20, 2011
Stay-at-home dads still may not be the norm, but they’re on the rise. Despite sixty-five percent of Canadians holding the traditional belief that women should run the household, the number of househusbands has tripled in the past 30 years, according to Statistics Canada. The transition to embrace a household founded on gender equality has been ...
Tags: breadwinner,
careers,
domestic duties,
domestic gods,
economic factors,
families,
feminism,
gender equality,
househusbands,
marriage,
Mr. Mom,
profession,
social factors,
Statistics Canada,
stay at home dad,
study,
survey,
work
June 7, 2011
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 ...
Tags: approved milk banks,
breast feeding,
breast milk,
childcare,
Food and Drug Administration,
herpes,
HIV,
maternity leave,
maternity support,
mother support group,
Onlythebreast.com,
open market,
stay at home dad
April 4, 2011
Ever wanted to be a stay-at-home dad but couldn’t afford it? Now you can do it – for six months at least. New paternity leave rules have just come into effect in the UK which allow dads the chance to have 26 weeks off work to stay home with their new child (biological or adopted). This ...
October 7, 2010
The roles of dads are changing for the better. Last week we told you about the Most Mentally Sexy Dad competition in Australia. It is a competition celebrating dads who support their partners by taking on domestic roles and “normalizing men in the caring/stay-at-home/domestic role.” The winner of this competition has been announced and it ...
September 30, 2010
Australian men have a reputation for being sexist and chauvinistic, but Reservoir Dad is proving that wrong with his Most Mentally Sexy Dad competition. Morning Quickie’s resident man has been running this competition for the last year to find men who are mentally sexy. He came up with the idea after seeing a survey that showed that women’s ...
September 14, 2010
Men are useless. They are either power-hungry jerks or lazy no-good leeches. This world is all about women versus men and the only way the women can get ahead in life is to band together and fight their way to the top. This is the way the world in painted in Lipstick Jungle. It was ...
Tags: book review,
Candace Bushnell,
career women,
gender roles,
Lipstick Jungle,
marriage,
relationships,
sex,
stay at home dad,
Tuesday book club,
women in business,
women who cheat
September 6, 2010
When I explained to a friend of mine that this website is a feminist site he was shocked. He just didn’t believe me. What was he expecting? Anti-man diatribes? Militant lesbians? Kill the patriarchy messages? Feminism has changed and evolved over the years and it’s not what a lot of people expect it to be. ...
Tags: career woman,
equal rights,
equality,
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feminism,
feminist,
first wave,
guide to feminism,
human rights,
men's rights,
reproductive rights,
right to vote,
second wave,
sexual revolution,
stay at home dad,
suffragette,
third wave,
this is what a feminist looks like,
what is feminism,
women are persons,
women choosing to stay home,
women’s rights
June 16, 2010
Daddy. The word is more often associated with teddy bear tea parties than it is with raw masculinity. But what better evidence is there of a man’s virility than his ability to create and provide for his children? The assumption among certain less evolved members of the population is that a guy pushing a baby ...
November 15, 2009
Girls should learn that they can’t have a glamorous career and also be a wife and mother, said the president of the Girls’ School Association. But as more fathers choose to stay at home, are these concerns outdated?