From cuts to women’s services to threats to the rights of female employees, conversations around Brexit need to be gendered.
Women & Work
Women in the aviation have been subjected to misogyny for decades — what needs to change to ensure more women can enter the industry?
B.C. Supreme Court delivered its judgement granting Ivan Henry $8,000,000. Henry was convicted of ten counts of sexual offence in March 1983, involving eight victims who were attacked in Vancouver in 1980-1982.…
Sara Di Pietrantonio, a Rome university student, was burned alive by her ex-boyfriend, Vincenzo Paduano, who set her car afire, then chased the 22-year-old about 500 metres as she tried to flee, setting…
To call a man a “man’s man” is usually meant as a compliment. To call almost anyone a “girly girl” is at best gentle ribbing, at worst, a dire criticism. If men…
Nursing. It’s the quintessential female profession. As my grandma explained to me, “For the longest time women could only be either nurses or schoolteachers.” Sure enough, historically and today in the US,…
Do women really make less than men? Women make less than men. In Canada. In the United States. In every country in the world. Belgium (yes, chocolate lovers, Belgium) has the smallest…
I’m a socialist. Let’s just start with that, OK? I’m anti-capitalist and I’m feminist and I’m living in a capitalist, patriarchal world. I am working class and I will likely always be.…