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More on Women, housework & the 21st century

More on Women, housework & the 21st century

My post the other day on this topic revealed my complete ignorance of house & home magazines (this deficiency in my reading was kindly pointed out in a recent comment). I have rushed to the store to get hold of a bunch of womens' magazines and have been reading

Women, housework & the 21st century

Women, housework & the 21st century

It is astonishing that many women in the west still seem to be obsessed with housework and cleaning in spite of the advances women have made in the past 100 years. A recent series of visits to various online women's groups (that are ostensibly about something else) showed

The great maternity leave debate

The great maternity leave debate

I do not have children, nor do I plan to reproduce - so I suppose you could say I have no skin in this particular game. But I've been thinking about the debates around maternity leave and the low birthrate that have occurred recently in Australia. The key problem

Tracking the end of the world - the Doomsday Guide

Tracking the end of the world - the Doomsday Guide

This site is a real gem, at the Doomsday Guide you track doomsday in its many and varied forms. This site provides an "online link resource to the full spectrum of End of the World Scenarios" inlcuding Armageddon, the Apocalypse, End of Days, Doomsday. There are even categories

Professionalism & IT (or not as the case may be)

Professionalism & IT (or not as the case may be)

Aaargh!! It is an unending source of amazement to me that our society will not let a hairdresser cut your hair or a mechanic fix your car unless they've done a multi-year apprenticeship BUT they will let any half-wit who thinks they have a clue play

Men, Women and Lifestyle Choices

Men, Women and Lifestyle Choices

Women in the western world are actually very lucky in many ways. Now there are so many choices for women - education, full time career, part time work, family, no family, travel, etc. But for men there does not seem to be so many choices. Many women of my acquaintance have

Family Friendly or Punishing the Childless?

Family Friendly or Punishing the Childless?

One thing that the big focus nowadays on so-called 'family friendly' workplaces (including maternity/paternity/parental leave) has overlooked is that this excludes the many people who for various reasons do not have children. The question is 'what about us'? While parents are getting time

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