French President Sarkozy has announced a new move toward gender equity. Is it time for the US to start thinking along similar lines?
Gender Quotas: The Wave of the Business Future?
Emotionally Correct Food*
Thanksgiving Day is Mother’s Day – in reverse! It’s the day when the Mother (or the nourisher/s, of whatever age or gender) works hard and long to fulfill the family’s core fantasies of care and good eating. Primal stuff. This
Women 50% of the Workforce — What Changes?/TV
Because the recession has laid off more men than women (75% of jobs lost were men’s jobs, in arenas largely staffed by men like manufacturing and construction…), women by default are about to become 50% of the paid workforce for
A Domestic Proposal: No More Babies
Maybe babies just aren’t needed anymore. Sixty years ago yes, but not any more.
Maybe that’s what the powers that be have been trying, gently, to tell us by not insuring births, not supplying health care for kids or good affordable childcare that would allow moms to go to work to support those kids knowing that they’re both safe and well cared for.
Birthrate Update
Sorry I’ve been slow in posting here lately – there’s so much to say, I’m flummoxed on where to start! For today, I’ll back up a bit, and point toward prognostications issued in August about the falling birth rate in
Childcare Progress
Here’s news of progress toward developing consistent standards and oversight mechanisms for childcare nationally. These funds wouldn’t add slots (though other programs may do that down the line), but they would pave the way to improving the quality of what
Domestic Product under Fire
Lately the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) – that measure of economic activity so often viewed as an indicator of national well being – has been coming in for criticism (from, among others, no less a personage than the President of