Big sister Beyoncé (winner of the video of the year award) stood up for her younger sibling in the singing sisterhood at last night’s Video Music Awards – giving Taylor Swift (winner for best female video) the chance to finish
Singing Sisterhood
Women’s Labor and Infertility
But society as a whole benefits when all citizens who want them can have kids when they’re ready–at the most basic level because we need a next generation of workers, but at another level because we want our citizens to be happy–for charitable reasons and more pragmatically because families are often an important part of what people work for, at whatever point they start them.
What’s It All About?
Welcome to DomesticProduct.net – a new blog exploring the evolving dynamics of women’s work, at home and outside it, just in time for Labor Day! Tension over what properly constitutes women’s work is the crux of much of our current
Le Donne Son Mobili
Mobili, as in mobilizing–a poor attempt at a translingual pun (should be “si stanno mobilizzando” says my Italian friend, not “mobili” as in the line from Rigoletto). But if the pun is bad, the move is good–for Italy. Today’s Times
Sister Suffragette
Can we make it to 50/50 by 2020, the 100th anniversary of WED and the suffrage amendment? Only if we keep pushing for change – and speaking out. Whether or not we hold up half the sky, we are more than half the population–could get pretty noisy!
To all the honeys making (less) moneys
$2 million for Paula, $10 million for Ryan and $30 million for Simon? No wonder she walked out. Here’s Leslie Morgan Steiner’s take on paying the honeys less moneys. Will the chicken game pay off? Should the guys stand up
CDC Report: Delayed Childbearing: More Women Are Having Their First Child Later in Life
Here’s a link to a report from the CDC out today on the global rise in later motherhood. Exciting to be cited as a reference! And here’s another link to a related story in USA Today, including some input from