Women's work must be in the water. Having gotten the link to Amartya Sen's article from IBTP yesterday, two articles caught my eye today as reminders that the ability and right of women to work outside the home is by no means surer than sure even in the so called "enlightened" West:

Feministe plugs a documentary by Meghna Damani, and Indian ( Read more... )

 
My favourite internet feminist, Twisty Faster, refers to the patriarchy and worldwide oppression of women as a "humanitarian crisis". The biggest humanitarian crisis there is, in fact. I've occasionally smiled knowingly to myself at this charming hyperbole, confident in the knowledge that while things for women are bad, and unfair, and ( Read more... )

 
" This is not [...] another so-called feminist attack on mothers, but on a culture that encourages them not only to think so little of themselves, but to positively glorify themselves in doing so, as though this constitutes some kind of sacrifice on behalf of our children. In magazines, TV programmes, mothers’ groups and web forums, it seems to ( Read more... )

[...] the news media gets working mothers' issues all wrong-talking about these issues as personal problems for individual women, rather than shared economic and public policy questions for a 21st century economy.

Last year, the Equalities Review, commissioned by the government, found that mothers face more discrimination in the workplace than any other group.

It is currently estimated that discrimination against women in the workplace - with the lost tax revenue and increased welfare benefits it causes - costs the UK between £15bn and £23bn each year, ( Read more... )