Category: Women & Work

Income splitting is discussed in the Globe and Mail: How to win women’s votes: Start a Mommy War

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Income splitting is discussed in the Globe and Mail: How to win women’s votes: Start a Mommy War (broken link) (March 28, 2011), There are better ways to cut taxes than income splitting (broken link) (March 29, 2011), and Income…

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Kathleen Lahey’s article: Bribing women to stay at home

Posted by on in Costs & costs-benefit analysis, Daycare lobby left & right, neo-liberalism, defamilialization, Misc., Mothers, women's equality, gender equity, feminisms, misogyny, Work, unwaged work, labour force statistics, GDP

Kathleen Lahey’s article, Bribing women to stay at home (broken link), in the National Post and a reply by Andrea Mrozek, The new feminist demand: high taxes (broken link)

March 8, 2011 – 100th Anniversary of International Women’s Day Commentary: (broken link)

Posted by on in Child poverty, income, family finances & taxation, Daycare lobby left & right, neo-liberalism, defamilialization, Mothers, women's equality, gender equity, feminisms, misogyny, UBC's Human Early Learnning Partnership (HELP), EDI $ MDI, Work, unwaged work, labour force statistics, GDP

March 8, 2011 – 100th Anniversary of International Women’s Day Commentary: Happy International Women’s Day by Kids FirstBeverly Smith (in Liberal MP Carolyn Bennet’s Blog) (broken link)National Post: Feminism’s Second Wave Hangover (broken link) by Tasha KheiriddinOttawa Citizen: Why the…

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Paul Kershaw on how the state should reshape us and our families

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Top tax-funded daycare lobbyist, Gen-squeeze head & UBC HELP staff PAUL KERSHAW on how the state should reshape us and our families. 2010 PDF Human Early Learning Partnership publication: The just commodification of women, equal care obligations for men, and…

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Living wage for municipal workers misses the target

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By Helen Ward, Vancouver Sun May 28, 2010 4:07 AM Vancouver city council, following New Westminster's lead, will vote on a "living wage" of over $18 an hour for municipal workers. Economists promoting this garner support by claiming living wages…

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“Our Phony Economy.” A Harper’s Magazine article

Posted by on in Corporate exploitation, consumerism, Mothers, women's equality, gender equity, feminisms, misogyny, Work, unwaged work, labour force statistics, GDP

June 2008. Jonathan Rowe. Harper’s Magazine - (magazine article): “Our Phony Economy"Simon Kuznets invented the GDP but opposed using it as if it measured all production: “The volume of services rendered by housewives and other members of the household toward…

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PowerPoint slides accompanying presentation to the 2009 BC Home School Convention

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PowerPoint slides accompanying presentation to the 2009 BC Home School Convention: “From Paragons to Parasites: Mums Choosing to Lose Our Work-Life Balance”: (download PowerPoint)

The mother of all paradoxes: November 2009 Article in Prospect Magazine (UK) (broken link)

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"The mother of all paradoxes. Stronger maternity rights can help mothers, but they will hurt employers and women in general." London School of Economics Senior Research Fellow, Dr Catherine Hakim, argues against expanded maternity/parental leave (EI) saying it does not…

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Employment Insurance—Parental & Maternity Leave: Does extended maternity/parental leave help families? (broken link)

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Recently, some in the daycare lobby have suggested expanding parental and maternity leave Employment Insurance, increasing the benefits paid and having father-only leave. See Human Early Learning Partnership (HELP) report "15 by 15: A Comprehensive Policy for Early Human Capital…

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Letter to the Toronto Star Editor in response to: “Daycare spaces or $100 cheques?”

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"Pay parents for their work" Toronto Star, Sep 23, 2008, pg. AA.7 Re: Editorial, Sept. 20 titled "Daycare spaces or $100 cheques?"This editorial asks the wrong question. The question is When will all children and parents in Canada be treated…

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Parent-Child Attachment Now a Political Issue in Britain. New Report from ex-leader of Conservatives says government should stop pressuring parents to use daycare centres

Posted by on in Attachment, Child poverty, income, family finances & taxation, Children's Well-Being, Effects on child outcomes: health, cognitive, behavioural, Misc., Mothers, women's equality, gender equity, feminisms, misogyny, Policy with promise

Parent-Child Attachment Now a Political Issue in Britain. New Report from ex-leader of Conservatives says government should stop pressuring parents to use daycare centres London Times Online editorial by report sponsor, former Conservative Party Leader, Iain Duncan Smith: “Think tank:…

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