Posted in Australian Politics, Feminism on 8 June, 2008 | No Comments »
Those Hoydens at Hoyden about Town have published the first downunder feminist carnival! Lots of great posts there to read - just in time for a long weekend (shame the NZers have already had theirs).
Posted in Australian Politics, Economics, Feminism, Parenting, Work and life on 25 May, 2008 | 6 Comments »
The campaign for paid maternity leave in Australia has gotten renewed vigour following the recent change of government. The government has asked the Productivity Commission to enquire into what should be done.
And there are a lot of blog posts about it. Joshua Gans has written a series from an economic point of view, which culminates [...]
Posted in Feminism, Life on 9 May, 2008 | No Comments »
Well actually, my title is ironic.
A teacher of a Year 1 class in Sydney has been sacked by the education department for posing nude with her husband and talking about their sex life in the sealed section of Cleo. You can read more here. This isn’t of course, political correctness as lambasted by the right [...]
Posted in Feminism, Work and life on 8 May, 2008 | No Comments »
In my professional life, I get quite involved in industry forums (fora?). Today, for me, was quite a big day. I had set up a workshop for my peers around the industry - roughly one per company, plus a few guest speakers - to discuss a professional issue. All up, there were around 30 of us. [...]
Posted in Australian Politics, Feminism, Parenting, Work and life on 11 April, 2008 | 5 Comments »
This week Beaton Consulting released a study on work life balance. Beaton’s main game is as advisors to professional services firms (law firms, accounting firms, etc). Every year they do a mammoth survey of those firms’ clients, to find out who is the best in each category. As a sideline, they tack on a few questions at [...]
Posted in Feminism, Parenting, Work and life on 20 February, 2008 | 2 Comments »
When the latest employment statistics were released last week, with the lowest level of unemployment since 1974, there was a bit of commentary about the increase in part tme workers:
“Most of January’s labour market growth was in part-time jobs which grew by 34,600 to 3.043 million while full-time employment slumped by 7,800 to 7.588 million. RBC [...]
Posted in Feminism, Work and life on 4 February, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I’ve been listening to some of the podcasts at Manager Tools, while I’ve been running. Two advantages - if I’m listening to someone talk, I’m less likely to notice how unfit I feel, and I keep running, and the podcasts are some of the most practical management advice I’ve seen anywhere.
One piece of advice I’ve [...]
Posted in Feminism, Work and life on 31 January, 2008 | 3 Comments »
EOWA recently released a study of remuneration of the very top of the Australian corporate tree. They took the public information about the top 200 listed companies, their five highest paid executives, their top management team - described as executive managers (CEO and director reports) and analysed the gender splits by role and salary.
They point out in [...]
Posted in Feminism, Life on 29 November, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Blue milk, a few weeks ago, asked all her readers to answer some questions about feminism and motherhood. It’s taken me a while, because some of these are questions I’ve never really thought deeply about before.
How would you describe your feminism in one sentence? When did you become a feminist? Was it before or after [...]
Posted in Feminism, Parenting on 18 November, 2007 | 3 Comments »
I was at the beach today, and Chatterboy and Hungry Boy are old enough that I don’t need to keep my eyes on them every second any more. This particular small harbour beach is one that is generally attended by families with children under 10 or so.
Every single boy was wearing a rash vest of some [...]
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