Mothers, women’s equality, gender equity, feminisms, misogyny

March 8, 2018 – International Women's Day

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon March 8, 2018May 22, 2020in Discrimination against parents, children, and parental child care, Law, legal cases, formal complaints, Misc., Mothers, women's equality, gender equity, feminisms, misogyny, Work, unwaged work, labour force statistics, GDP

Our government thinks maternal child care is bad for women and children and the economy. Our leaders want to "GET MOTHERS BACK TO WORK" and get our children into full time LICENSED DAYCARE so we can be "PRODUCTIVE" in the…

The Daycare Lobby’s Misogyny

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon August 31, 2017May 21, 2020in Misc., Mothers, women's equality, gender equity, feminisms, misogyny, Work, unwaged work, labour force statistics, GDP

August 31, 2017: Cardus op-ed by Helen Ward: The Daycare Lobby's Misogyny . Regarding government and corporate schemes to bully mothers away from our kids and into full time jobs we ask: With feminist like this, who needs patriarchy?

Exploiting women through childcare

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon August 15, 2016May 20, 2020in Costs & costs-benefit analysis, Misc., Mothers, women's equality, gender equity, feminisms, misogyny, Parental preference, Work, unwaged work, labour force statistics, GDP

Aug 10, 2016: Financial Post article, Exploiting women through childcare. The Federal government is considering a $500M "child care" subsidy program in order to increase mothers' employment. Is this what women want? Does cheap daycare increase mothers' labour force participation?

Sarah Godoy's response to "Child care money is just more Tory sexism"

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon July 30, 2015May 18, 2020in Discrimination against parents, children, and parental child care, Misc., Mothers, women's equality, gender equity, feminisms, misogyny

Dear Sir/Madam, Daycare is expensive, and families who use it and who are struggling to make ends meet certainly deserve support, but parental childcare is equally expensive, and families who provide parental childcare deserve support equally. In my family we…

Full Equality For Women (broken link)

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon September 15, 2014May 16, 2020in Child poverty, income, family finances & taxation, Misc., Mothers, women's equality, gender equity, feminisms, misogyny, Work, unwaged work, labour force statistics, GDP

FULL EQUALITY FOR WOMEN: Funding for family care work embraced by economists and lawyers "every mother is a working mother" Sept 2014 "Setting a wage for homemaking" - Mercatornet (broken link)September 2014 "Taking Unpaid Housework for Granted Is Wrong" -…

Calgary Herald article

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon February 20, 2014June 15, 2020in Child poverty, income, family finances & taxation, Misc., Mothers, women's equality, gender equity, feminisms, misogyny, Parental preference, Policy with promise

Via IMFC February 20, 2014. IMFC - update (web): Calgary Herald: Andrea Mrozek quoted in editorial favouring income splitting See original article here: Calgary Herald article (broken link) See Also 1999 Federal Sub-Committee report (download PDF here) on income splitting

Birth-Mothers are Different Than Other Parents (broken link)

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon November 13, 2013May 16, 2020in Misc., Mothers, women's equality, gender equity, feminisms, misogyny, Pregnancy

Supreme Court of Canada rules birth-mothers are different than other parents. West Coast LEAF lawyer publicly congratulates and supports Kids First goal of challenging definitions of "child care" and "work" that discriminate against the work of parental child care. Hear…

Critical Legal Thinking: "White Feminists Fatigue Syndrome"

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon October 21, 2013May 14, 2020in Daycare lobby left & right, neo-liberalism, defamilialization, Misc., Mothers, women's equality, gender equity, feminisms, misogyny

October 21 posting at Critical Legal Thinking: "White Feminists Fatigue Syndrome" second-wave feminism critiqued by feminists who honour unwaged family care work: Kids First has long been aware that the elite feminists who dominate our government women's and family policy…

The Guardian: How feminism became capitalism’s handmaiden – and how to reclaim it.

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon October 15, 2013May 14, 2020in Daycare lobby left & right, neo-liberalism, defamilialization, Misc., Mothers, women's equality, gender equity, feminisms, misogyny

October 2013 article in The Guardian: How feminism became capitalism's handmaiden - and how to reclaim it. A movement that started out as a critique of capitalist exploitation ended up contributing key ideas to its latest neoliberal phase

Economist Marilyn Waring on the need to recognize women’s unpaid work.

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon April 17, 2013May 14, 2020in Misc., Mothers, women's equality, gender equity, feminisms, misogyny, Work, unwaged work, labour force statistics, GDP

Economist Marilyn Waring on the need to recognize women's unpaid work. Videos: Making Women's Work Count -- a short interview, and Who's Counting? Marilyn Waring on Sex, Lies and Global Economics -- a full length film by Canada's National Film…

March 8, 2013 International Women’s Day: Hugo Chávez knew that his revolution depended on women

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon March 8, 2013May 13, 2020in Child poverty, income, family finances & taxation, Misc., Mothers, women's equality, gender equity, feminisms, misogyny, Work, unwaged work, labour force statistics, GDP

March 8, 2013 International Women's Day - UK Guardian article by Selma James, founder of Wages for Housework, and Nina Lopez of Argentina, founder of Legal Action for Women and joint co-ordinator of the Global Women's Strike: Hugo Chávez knew…

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