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 ...
Did you ever think a dictionary could be sexist? JennieSue tells us why some words just shouldn’t exist. As of this month, “Mumpreneur” has officially made it into the Collins dictionary. It’s always been a word that makes me really angry, but actually adding it to the dictionary, giving it the official “this is an ...
The women who have the most abortions are ones who are already mothers, according to statistics. And I can completely understand why. Having had a baby already, you know in advance that pregnancy and childbirth can be a tough slog with all manner of possible complications. And then the hard work really begins. Breastfeeding – ...
As much as we all want supermoms to exist (and want to be one ourselves), everyone needs a little help from their loved ones. Although there’s daycare and nannies, some women cannot afford to pay for childcare. So they rely on “Team Mom,” a close-knit network of friends and family, to help them out. A ...
Although it’s now very clear that women having a career is a steady (and largely encouraged) trend, studies are still examining whether women at work is beneficial or detrimental to children. Luckily, the latest study in the matter shows that having two working parents is not only good for them, it is also beneficial to ...
“Australians have become more conservative in their views” of women and work, according to a new study. But I think the problem is that any survey like this misses out of the real nitty gritty of the issues. Most women (74%) think stay-at-home mothers are better for children and 41% of men “endorsed the male ...
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% ...
In America, more and more women are delaying motherhood to pursue education and careers. This is great for many reasons, especially a better educated population with less teenage pregnancies. And this trend includes women from ”all ethnicities in the United States.” Children born to highly educated mothers increasingly are born later in life. The mothers are usually married, and ...
A female soldier in Britain has won a legal battle for claims of sex and race discrimination that forced her to quit her job. She was a single mother who was unable to find childcare on a few occasions, something seen as unacceptable in the military life. The problem with her situation was that, as she ...
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.
It’s that time of year, when spring blossoms counteract the car pollution, beer gardens are filled with humans on...
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...
