Monthly Archives: September 2009
quote of the week: virginia woolf
Quote of the week by Virginia Woolf. Continue reading
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rebuttal
I also believe feminism is about making sure that women are free to make their own choices without being discriminated against in any way. So if that’s a woman who wants to work full-time, feminism is about making sure that she earns as much as her male colleague who’s doing the same job. If she wants to work part-time, feminism is about making sure that she can ask for part-time work and that childcare is readily available and not too expensive. And if she wants to stay at home to care for children or the elderly, feminism is about supporting her choice of a caring role and making sure that she’s not financially worse off. Continue reading
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quote of the week: kofi annan
Quote of the week from Kofi Annan. Continue reading
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war and peace
When will you ever understand? War is not the solution, and whoever the combatants are – men or women – it is a terrible, horrible act of injustice when they die. Continue reading
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democracy: a male thing
But then again, when the re-elected President Hamid Karzai approves a law condoning marital rape, starvation, and enforced seclusion if a wife does not fulfill her ‘conjugal duties’, you’d almost rather not have any contribution to propping up a government that so grossly ignores women’s human rights. Continue reading
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equal pay day
In 2009, Equal Pay Day was September 1. This means that while men worked the last financial year from July 1 2008 to June 31 2009, it took women until September 1 to ‘catch up’ and earn the same amount of money. Continue reading
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