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Cross posted from my home site. I’ve found it fascinating watching the men and women around me and on social media discussing a high pr...

Cross Posted from my usual home-base . The annual awards evening celebrating top NewZealand researchers was held at Auckland Museum on We...

Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg talking at TEDWomen Sheryl Sandberg's TEDWomen talk on the lack of women in boardro...

Earlier this week Auckland Council's Governing Body (the mayor plus 20 elected ward councillors) voted at an Extraordinary Business Meet...

Unrequited Love No. 31 Sleeping Beauty.  Princess, recently awakened:  "I was dreaming of a place where household tasks were shared e...

An old moan: women with small children end up taking all the flexible working hours (because there's a limited amount to go round?) and ...

Everything is going to happen Next Week.  Next Week will be perfect and filled with plenty of time that I can spend on things other than mee...

Cross posted I want to explain some basic facts of life to our Prime Minster, about how work and childcare fit together for people who don...

via a friend on facebook, this piece from holly robinson at the huffington post asking whether women can really have it all: Fast forward 1...

A quick note to let you know I'm rejoining The Hand Mirror team. I'm very, very pleased that when I asked if there was space for me...

Deborah Hill Cone has been going through the process of becoming a solo mum lately, and last week she wrote about motherhood along these li...

The Guardian, in an article about food wastage , writes: There are nearly a billion malnourished people in the world, but all of them could ...

i thought this press release from the equal employment opportunities trust was of interest: A new analysis of the age and gender profiles o...

One of the most significant social issues in Japan and a topic of extensive soul-searching is the declining birthrate. The population in th...

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...

is it just me, or is it really difficult to have access to a woman doctor? i've found it really quite difficult in the last 10 years or...

Men in all 18 countries examined by the OECD (including NZ) have been found to have more leisure time than women. Original Economist articl...

At present there are only 45 women on the boards of the top 100 companies listed on the New Zealand stock exchange - only 8.65 per cent of t...

A work day Had to be away before Wriggly awoke this morning, although I watched him while he snored before the taxi arrived. V lucky plane ...

The Herald yesterday reported that women are suffering an "exhaustion epidemic" : Director of the Sleep/Wake Research Centre at M...