Anne-Marie Slaughter’s article in the Atlantic was brought to my attention the other day by a feminist friend who was unsure of her feelings about it. Certainly the piece has received a lot of praise. It is by far the most popular article ever published in the magazine. But, as I told my friend, Slaughter [...]
EU gotta be kidding! Yesterday’s vote in the European Parliament’s to extend maternity leave to 20 weeks on full pay across the EU should be welcomed by anyone who believes the work-life balance in the UK needs to be seriously revised. If approved, which is far from certain given Conservative opposition in Britain, it will [...]
Guest post by Carl Packman While Sarkozy in France has realised that the burqa ban will be harder to enforce than originally believed – and so, therefore, will be shelved – another group of angry right wing men (and women), this time in Britain, have decided the issue is for them, namely UKIP, and for [...]
Pay audits are a start – but the real way to end gender inequality would be to increase paternity leave I’m getting to that age now where friends of mine are starting to have children on purpose. Personally, I don’t want them. Certainly not at the moment – my flat is so tiny they would [...]
Sunny Hundal, in a piece for The Guardian yesterday, made the case that we cannot give up on Afghanistan. It was, he says, unreasonable to expect the overthrow of the Taliban might come without British casualties or that we could secure positive social change in Afghanistan overnight. In and of themselves, these points are very [...]
The media and the blogosphere have been wrrring and grrring over Harriet Harman’s call for new rules to ensure that both Labour’s Leader and Deputy Leader cannot both be men. Harman’s whole approach to the question of Labour’s leadership is, in my opinion, completely wrong headed. I say this not because I am a white [...]
Sorry for a slightly navel gazing post. Recently, a number of people I have spoken to have told me in no uncertain terms that while they enjoy The Third Estate, they find it somewhat problematic (or worse) that we have no female bloggers. The result, I am told, is an obvious lack of female perspectives. [...]
