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

Rising Violence Against Swedish Women Despite Gender Equity Promotion (broken link)

Posted by on in Misc., Mothers, women's equality, gender equity, feminisms, misogyny, Sweden, Women & Work

The link below is to CBC radio show "The Current" with a top current affairs interviewer dealing with rising violence against women in Sweden. http://www.cbc.ca/thecurrent/2005/200505/20050527.html (broken link)Scroll down to part 3 to read about the situation in Sweden. You can…

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Does Daycare Lower ‘Child Poverty’ and Get Mums into Jobs? Quebec Experiment Results: No

Posted by on in Child poverty, income, family finances & taxation, Misc., Mothers, women's equality, gender equity, feminisms, misogyny, Ontario, Quebec, Work, unwaged work, labour force statistics, GDP

Data from "ECEC 2004" published by the Childcare Resource and Research Unit at the University of Torontohttp://www.childcarecanada.org/ECEC2004/index.html#tocQUEBEC Regulated daycare expenditure: $1.56 billion."Spaces" are available for only 29.9% of kids age 0-12. (Quebec would have to triple expenses to $4.5 billion…

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Kids First Guest Blog (July 11, 2005)

Posted by on in Effects on child outcomes: health, cognitive, behavioural, Mental/Emotional Health, Misc., Mothers, women's equality, gender equity, feminisms, misogyny

Motherlove, crime and addiction: lessons learned from lab rats By Chella Turnbull © Crime in urban North America has taken on a new character lately. The elderly, the helpless, and charities are now the new targets. People in Vancouver were…

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GREETINGS ON INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY

Posted by on in Daycare lobby left & right, neo-liberalism, defamilialization, Misc., Mothers, women's equality, gender equity, feminisms, misogyny

From: KIDS FIRST PARENT ASSOCIATION OF CANADAwww.kidsfirstcanada.org The issue of child care is attracting a great deal of attention as Parliament debates the proposed Budget and its proposed National Child Care plan. Across Canada people are outraged that Hon. Ken…

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Swedish family policy has not led to equality for women according to the UK Guardian

Posted by on in Disinformation by daycare/all-day K lobby, Mothers, women's equality, gender equity, feminisms, misogyny, Sweden, Work, unwaged work, labour force statistics, GDP

Swedish family policy has not led to equality for women according to the UK Guardian: Sep 22, 2004. UK Guardian - article (web): “For decades we’ve been told Sweden is a great place to be a working parent. But we’ve…

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Taxing Canadian Families: What’s Fair, What’s Not – With KF Commentary

Posted by on in Child poverty, income, family finances & taxation, Mothers, women's equality, gender equity, feminisms, misogyny, Work, unwaged work, labour force statistics, GDP

July 2000. Vincent and Woolley. IRPP - research paper (PDF): "Taxing Canadian Families: What's Fair, What's Not" This paper thankfully calls for more support for families with dependent children or other dependents, and less discriminatory/more fair for all. However the…

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