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“Women’s liberation lies in liberating men”26th June 2010, 12:20pm |
Katrin Bennhold, correspondent for the International Herald Tribune in Paris, has written an unusually good piece, Women’s liberation lies in liberating men. Motherhood still remains the barrier to gender equality…..The only thing that can level the playing field at work is a level playing field at home. And that requires…
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Marriage is a women’s issue (according to the UK media)
01st May 2010, 8:05pm |
The other day The Independent published an article on marriage, A taxing problem for single-issue campaigners. Sarah Cassidy set up a “mums’ panel” from Mumsnet to consider the issues and interviewed a number of women (and only women). The only men she referred to were the political leaders (all men,…
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My book has been printed: Baby’s Here! Who Does What?
17th April 2010, 10:57am |
My book is printed! I have put it on Amazon, though the media launch is in early June. I have not just tried to produce something that it interesting to read, but is also a pleasure to hold and leaf through. Lots of colour, pictures and quotations. I’m excited by…
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Images of fathers in caring roles
16th March 2010, 10:01pm |
This is a bronze sculpture of a father and child. As it happens, it is in our garden, though it does not belong to us. The artist, Caroline Mackenzie, asked us to look after it while she was living in India and it has been here ever since. Caroline also…
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Fathers are made invisible in the media - I have the headline and I have the photos!
10th March 2010, 8:04pm |
My last post was about the FAMILIES who protested for better maternity services in London at the weekend. I took lots of photos, particularly of the men. This is the headline in The Independent. A different picture entirely. My family once arranged a family photo and the photographer asked me…
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Why can a teenage boy say a puppy is adorable in front of his friends but not say the same about a human baby?
13th January 2010, 7:46am |
One of the first things I noticed when going out with our new puppy, Lottie, is how people respond to her just like they do to a baby. But with one big difference – boys and men respond just as much as girls and women. I was quite taken aback…
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- gender equality
- Gender
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Fathers are weak
02nd December 2009, 8:03pm |
This blog comes with a new challenge. I have a very small puppy on my lap. Animals now outnumber humans in this house! I watched Mumsnet last week giving David Cameron a hard time. It was all over the news. I suddenly saw something I had not seen so clearly…
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- gender equality
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The Government has dropped its commitments to expand leave entitlements for mothers and fathers. Good!
16th September 2009, 7:13pm |
I was busy writing my second blog on shared parenting when the debate about maternity and paternity leave took off. Here is what I said to the journalists and policy people who have phoned me in the last two days. The two changes - transferability of maternity leave to fathers…
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Thoughts on the future of gender equality (1)
05th September 2009, 1:40pm |
Over the next few weeks I will reflect on the future of the campaign to achieve equal pay for men and women and I want to relate this directly to the needs of children. Unequal pay is not good for children - it restricts how their parents can look after…
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