The Hand Mirror

I have a boyfriend (please leave me alone) Yes I am totally mentally distraught about this pregnancy and would get lots worse if I had to ...

If you ever notice that I say chicken oddly, then know that it is because I worked at a fast food outlet called Chick-Inn every Friday night...

yesterday i had a brief exchange on twitter with robyn malcolm regarding roger sutton, and you can see the whole exchange from this tweet: ...

today the news breaks that roger sutton is resigning from CERA as a result of allegations of sexual harrasement.  he announces and holds a ...

This is what happens when you have a culture of corporate governance in a democratic institution. Joyce and Key are both corporate governa...

i was directed to this article at slate by someone on twitter, who was lauding it as a good defence of successful women.  i was pretty hope...

My parents conceived me in the USA, but my mother travelled half a continent, alone, to give birth in Canada.  The US were invading Vietnam ...

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

Bad news on the gender pay gap today, as reported in the NZ Herald : The gender pay gap is the biggest it has been in 10 years, according...

This event sounds totally amaze, many thanks to Rebecca for telling me about it. Snippets from the  “ Diary of a Caregiver ” EEO Commis...

today is international workers' memorial day .  it's a day to remember those people who have died at work, particularly as a result ...

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...

So Murray McCully is overseeing a halving of women employed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade in frontline diplomatic roles. ...

WARNING:  This post and the ensuing thread include a lot of libertarian ranting.  You may prefer to find another time-wasting/procrastinat...

Many thanks to Amanda from Pickled Think for submitting this guest post. Perhaps these fictional examples look like women you know about...

Red pen about to start circling the Job Opportunities in the paper Today's announcement about welfare reform brings us back to the ...

Observation the First - If kids are going without breakfast their mums probably are too I get really fed up with the narrative that seems t...

i know i'm a bit late for this post, but never mind. i have to say i'm very glad to see that alisdair thompson is no longer in a po...

i don't know if it's possible to embed tv3 clips (can't find any codes) so you'll have to go over to their place to watch t...

great . alisdair thomson's response to catherine delahunty's equal pay bill: ... EMA chief executive Alasdair Thompson today admitte...