Mothers, women’s equality, gender equity, feminisms, misogyny – Page 4

Corporate Welfare: Labour Force expansion policies: The OECD and the World Bank seek a larger, globalized, more “flexible” Labour Force

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon April 10, 2008June 17, 2020in Corporate exploitation, consumerism, Daycare lobby left & right, neo-liberalism, defamilialization, International organizations (OECD, World Bank, UNICEF, etc.. ), Mothers, women's equality, gender equity, feminisms, misogyny, Work, unwaged work, labour force statistics, GDP

Corporate Welfare: Labour Force expansion policies (cat link): The OECD and the World Bank seek a larger, globalized, more “flexible” Labour Force. Importing low-wage labour means higher profits through lower wages. This Guardian article describes the situation in Europe. “Putting…

HELP spokesman Paul Kershaw seeks neo-liberal state coersion of parents’ child rearing decisions.

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon April 5, 2008June 1, 2020in Daycare lobby left & right, neo-liberalism, defamilialization, Mothers, women's equality, gender equity, feminisms, misogyny, Welfare reform, workfare, McJobs, Work, unwaged work, labour force statistics, GDP

HELP spokesman Paul Kershaw seeks neo-liberal state coersion of parents’ child rearing decisions. Read excerpts from chapter 10, “Carefair: Gendering Citizenship ‘Neo-Liberal’ Style (google books),” by Paul Kershaw, leading spokesperson at Human Early Learning Partnership (HELP) and leading child/family policy…

Watch your language! A word on words: "work", "stay-at-home mum", "single-earner

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon March 1, 2008June 15, 2020in Child poverty, income, family finances & taxation, Misc., Mothers, women's equality, gender equity, feminisms, misogyny, Policy with promise, Work, unwaged work, labour force statistics, GDP

In the income-splitting and child-care debates, it is important not to devalue the work parents—especially women—do looking after our own children or any other form of unpaid, uncommodified work. The daycare lobby devalues this work already—we do not need to…

Working Mothers: Most mothers are not at full-time paid jobs

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon November 20, 2007June 17, 2020in Misc., Mothers, women's equality, gender equity, feminisms, misogyny

WORKING MOTHERS Most mothers are not at full-time paid jobs. Only about 6%—not 70% as we are told—of mothers of children under 3 are at full time jobs.These graphs (download PDF here) present a breakdown of mothers’ labour force participation…

Britain’s Daily Mail finds Swedish woman are asking for an end to daycare discrimination

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon November 15, 2007June 17, 2020in Discrimination against parents, children, and parental child care, Mothers, women's equality, gender equity, feminisms, misogyny, Sweden

Britain’s Daily Mail finds Swedish woman are asking for an end to daycare discrimination: women are far from equal after 30 years of policy discriminating against parental child care. Parents in Britain—and Canada—take note! Nov 26, 2007. Daiy Mail -…

Is there a labour shortage and should mothers have to fill it?

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon June 26, 2007July 7, 2020in Mothers, women's equality, gender equity, feminisms, misogyny, Work, unwaged work, labour force statistics, GDP

2007. Kids First Parent Association of Canada - info brief (PDF): "Is there a labour shortage and should mothers have to fill it?"

Daycare does not lower “child poverty” or increase mothers’ labour force participation

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon July 20, 2006July 7, 2020in Disinformation by daycare/all-day K lobby, Misc., Mothers, women's equality, gender equity, feminisms, misogyny, Quebec, Work, unwaged work, labour force statistics, GDP

Articles and Research by Kids First—Volume 4 (August 26 , 2005) Daycare does not lower "child poverty" or increase mothers' labour force participation By Helen Ward, President, Kids First Parent Association of Canada © Daycare is promoted as the key…

What is Feminism?

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon June 26, 2006July 7, 2020in Misc., Mothers, women's equality, gender equity, feminisms, misogyny, Work, unwaged work, labour force statistics, GDP

Pop-Culture Shocker: TV Cartoon Tackles Mums' Work Choices By Chella Turnbull. Received by e-mail June 29, 2006 I watched a very popular cartoon the other evening—it's called "The Family Guy"—quite bizarre and popular with guys especially. The male character got…

Read excerts from Patricia Morgan’s book, Family Policy, Family Changes—Sweden, Italy and Britain Compared:

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon June 26, 2006June 29, 2020in Daycare lobby left & right, neo-liberalism, defamilialization, Effects on child outcomes: health, cognitive, behavioural, Mothers, women's equality, gender equity, feminisms, misogyny, Power imbalance between parents & state, Sweden, Work, unwaged work, labour force statistics, GDP

Read excerpts from Patricia Morgan’s book, Family Policy, Family Changes—Sweden, Italy and Britain Compared: or try: Book City (toronto) June 2006. CH. 2 EXTRACT ON SWEDEN: "Sweden: Socialist Engineering in Family Policy" (PDF)June 2006. Ch. 5 EXTRACT: "Overview and Conclusions"…

Response to Dr. Hillel Goelman’s article “Time to get past child care myths”

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon April 30, 2006July 7, 2020in Costs & costs-benefit analysis, Discrimination against parents, children, and parental child care, Misc., Mothers, women's equality, gender equity, feminisms, misogyny, Quality & staff-child ratios, UBC's Human Early Learnning Partnership (HELP), EDI $ MDI, Work, unwaged work, labour force statistics, GDP

[Dr. Goelman, daycare lobbyist, had an article in the Vancouver Sun, Monday April 24, 2006. This response was not published by the Sun.] Hillel Goelman and Clyde Hertzman run H.E.L.P. at UBC and are leading daycare promoters. Recently they attacked…

Some Dutch and US 2nd-wave feminists Condemn University Grad Mothers who Reduce their GDP-Sector Time (broken link)

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon April 15, 2006July 7, 2020in Daycare lobby left & right, neo-liberalism, defamilialization, Effects on child outcomes: health, cognitive, behavioural, Mothers, women's equality, gender equity, feminisms, misogyny, Work, unwaged work, labour force statistics, GDP

Some Dutch and US 2nd-wave feminists Condemn University Grad Mothers who Reduce their GDP-Sector Time: March 31, 2006. "Dutch Feminazis Want to Punish Educated Mothers": An article from The Brussels Journal by Alexandra ColenFebruary 22, 2006. "‘Mommy Wars’: To Work…

Behind the baby gap lies a culture of contempt for parenthood

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon March 26, 2006July 7, 2020in Discrimination against parents, children, and parental child care, Mothers, women's equality, gender equity, feminisms, misogyny, Policy with promise, Work, unwaged work, labour force statistics, GDP

March 6, 2006. "Behind the baby gap lies a culture of contempt for parenthood": An article by Madeline Bunting published in The Guardian that points out how women’s unpaid care-work is worth more than entire GDP

Every Mother is a Working Mother in Venezuela: Unpaid Home-Workers of Venezuela Fight Bureaucrats to Assure President Hugo Chavez’s Revolutionary Promise of Remuneration

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon February 4, 2006July 7, 2020in Child poverty, income, family finances & taxation, Misc., Mothers, women's equality, gender equity, feminisms, misogyny, Work, unwaged work, labour force statistics, GDP

(espanol abajo)STATEMENT FROM WOMEN HOUSEWIVE WORKERS IN THE HOME TO OUR PRESIDENT HUGO CHAVEZ FRIAS—4 February 2006We see the need to issue this statement given the imminent emergency of having to spend another year without a budget or begging here…

Mum professor seeking input from “at-home” parents for book

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon January 1, 2006June 29, 2020in Misc., Mothers, women's equality, gender equity, feminisms, misogyny, Work, unwaged work, labour force statistics, GDP

Stay-at-Home-Parent Your insight and experiences are needed to help others!I am a mother of two boys and college professor who recently made the decision to put her career on hold to be a stay-at-home parent. The decision was surprisingly hard…

Daycare Dis-information Buster: What it really means when they say “The reality is that 70% of mothers are working”

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon December 20, 2005June 29, 2020in Disinformation by daycare/all-day K lobby, Mothers, women's equality, gender equity, feminisms, misogyny, Work, unwaged work, labour force statistics, GDP

Dec 20, 2005. Kids First Parent Association of Canada - res & com (PDF): "Daycare Dis-information Buster: What it really means when they say “The reality is that 70% of mothers are working”