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#womenslives: The gender wars of household chores: a feminist comic – @guardian
By feimineach / in #quickhits / October 22, 2017The French comic artist Emma illustrates the concept of the ‘mental load’. When a man expects his partner to ask him to do things, he is viewing her as the manager of their household chores. (Rest.)
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#vivelafeminism: #WomensMarch needs to care about capitalism (too) – @feministcurrent
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #quickhits / February 6, 2017On January 21st, an estimated 2.9 million people participated in Women’s Marches around the U.S., setting a record for the largest one-day protest in the nation’s history. For many feminists, a public...
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#guestpost: the 2.2%: meet the women who drive London’s cabs
By feimineach / in #equality, #gender, #misogyny, #sexism, #women, #guestposts / November 1, 2016This is a man's world. And if you have any reservations about that statement, we're about to hit you with some pretty depressing statistics. Buckle up… 36% of secondary school headteachers are w...
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#womenslives: “When women are too busy cleaning and cooking…”
By feimineach / in #womenslives, #quickhits / February 28, 2016#womenslives: “When women are too busy cleaning and cooking, they have less time for paid work” - @olgakhazanFor example:“American women spend more than two hours daily on chores, compared...
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#womenslives: Do we value women’s work?
By feimineach / in #womenslives, #quickhits / November 20, 2015Do we value women’s work? (The F-Word) Global Women’s Strike argue it’s time to stand up for women’s unpaid care work. It is forty years since the women of Iceland took a Day Off and brought the c...
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#research: ‘Women are just better at this stuff’: is emotional labor feminism’s next frontier? (guardian)
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / November 9, 2015‘Women are just better at this stuff’: is emotional labor feminism’s next frontier? (guardian)In a work context, emotional labor refers to the expectation that a worker should manipu...
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#research: Patriarchy’s Magic Trick: How Anything Perceived As Women’s Work Immediately Sheds Its Value
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / September 9, 2014I’ve posted quite a bit about gender imbalance in the workplace this week (particularly in terms in science careers) and here is another. This post (from cratesandribbons) is from a while back but it’...
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