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#guestpost: Discrimination against mothers is still a real problem – @kateharveston
By feimineach / in #feminism, #sociology, #patriarchiesrealign, #womensrights, #equality, #gender, #sexism, #women, #guestposts / March 18, 2018Throughout history, there have been a variety of ways people have discriminated against mothers. In the 1800s, they were barred from taking certain positions based on the belief that moms should stay ...
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#vivelafeminism: Why disregarding motherhood and women’s bodies won’t help feminism
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #quickhits / March 26, 2017On Mother’s Day, a piece by @glosswitch on feminist and motherhood: @newstatesman:The question “what is a woman?” – that annoying, wheedling, pseudo-intellectual musing, of which there’s no equivalent...
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#womenslives: The perils of even raising the ‘penalty’ of motherhood
By feimineach / in #womenslives, #quickhits / July 24, 2015As deputy editor of the New Statesman, I’ve just discovered, pointing out that many powerful women are childless provokes a deeply emotive debateIt is not every day you get told off by Nicola Sturgeon...
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#patriarchiesrealign: “If Dad made more money, you wouldn’t work, right?”
By feimineach / in #patriarchiesrealign, #quickhits / December 10, 2014What unnerves me is realizing that somehow, my own daughter has picked up on the idea that for a mother to not work is the optimum situation, the one that, if money were no object, of course one would...
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