The Hand Mirror

a must-read piece , via blue milk, on the value of work: When performed by married women in their own homes, domestic labor is work—diffi...

Port workers and their families on the picket line.  Child holds placard saying "All my daddy wants is a roster". On Saturday ...

Thought people might be interested in discussing this further. Here are links to both the Summary and the whole of the report Through T...

... if you ever did feel guilty about being a mother in paid employment. can't say that i ever did, but now the research proves that yo...

Cross posted As has been widely discussed , New Zealand's National government decided that one of the best places to save a bit of mo...

From the Weekend Herald on Saturday .

Cactus Kate has highlighted a truly awful sexist motoring column by Eric Thompson, which you can read if you want to soil your eyes with an...

Or more specifically, should a man who doesn't have a biological relationship with a child change it's nappies? The reason I ask is ...

From the North Shore Times, on Stuff, earlier in the week: Teenage boys are learning a thing or two about fatherhood at Rosmini College. The...

backbenchers on channel 7 had a gem of a moment this week. on the panel were hon annette king, john boscowan, sue bradford and chester borr...

Found on the Herald's site: A report published in the UK today suggests that more men are giving up the battle for a better work-life ba...

From the Herald today: Kiwi men are not doing enough around the house to win over their wives and partners, new research suggests, but we ar...

i was quite interested by the discussion around this story about an australian MP who took her child into the house for a short while: Poli...

A friend tipped me off to this poster, which promotes World Breastfeeding Week (apologies for the quality of the image). She'd seen it ...

In a recent discussion about immunisation , the question was asked: does mum really know best? I'm going to be upfront here - I don'...

Less than a year ago, my family and I decided to uproot ourselves and move from the South Island to the capital. With the move came a rearr...

Two readers have independently contacted me about a North American study just released in the last few days which shows that men who take on...

The NZ Police's 'Get better work stories' recruitment ads have been annoying me for some time now. I don't like the idea tha...

There's two interesting pieces of research reported in the NZ Herald this morning. It turns out that higher rates of abortion are linked...

Cross post I'm inclined to see the National party's plan to work-test sole parents as a good thing. We've been told a number o...