Gender Issues

Se couvrir : un enjeu féministe

March 8, 2011




First in English, then in Spanish, and now in French! (en français).  Many thanks to reader Catherine Leclerc for the translation from English into French. I've personally spent a lot of time in Quebec and France as a breastfeeding mother. In France, I always felt like I stood out and was being stared at when I [...]

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CUBRIRSE: Es una cuestión feminista

March 3, 2011




Last week I released a video that I produced called Covering Up is a Feminist Issue and gave other bloggers permission to share the video on their blogs. One of the bloggers who shared it is Saray. On her blog, Mothers Utopia, she put up both English and Spanish posts about the video. That gave [...]

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Why always the mother?

February 12, 2011




Researchers evidently think mothers are significantly more important than fathers. Perhaps I should be flattered, but I'm not. I'm annoyed at the amount of blame that gets explicitly and implicitly put on mothers and I'm annoyed at the way fathers are dismissed as insignificant influences on their children's lives. In a post last week, I [...]

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Canadian women: We're fat, our kids are fat, and we're letting other people raise our children

February 4, 2011




Today's news stories come with a heavy dose of woman and mother-blame. Canadian women getting fatter, and fast…: In the Ottawa Citizen, Sharon Kirkey reported that Canadian women are becoming overweight faster than almost any other women in the high-income world. At least this article ended with a couple of suggestions on tackling structural issues [...]

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Share The Important Things

February 1, 2011




We've been practicing our own brand of equally shared parenting since before Amy and Marc Vachon started their Equally Shared Parenting blog and wrote their Equally Shared Parenting book. While Amy and Marc's approach emphasizes the importance of sharing every task, from earning money, to doing the laundry, to feeding the baby, our approach has [...]

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Dear Daughter

January 23, 2011




I've written a fair bit on this blog about the things I want to teach my children about sex, love, tolerance, religion, death, war, history, food, consumerism, feminism, empathy and more. So often it seems they are so busy being kids that they don't have the time or the interest in listening. I try to [...]

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Non-sexist holiday shopping: Is it possible?

November 30, 2010




A while ago, I shared the post Have Yourself a Very Sexist Holiday by Melissa from Pigtail Pals on my facebook page. One of my readers wrote to me after reading the post and asked for my experience buying gifts for my daughter and my thoughts or recommendations for gift shopping for girls. I am [...]

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Let's throw the assumptions out with the bathwater

November 21, 2010




I'm late to the party, I know. It is a party I didn't want to attend. I read Erica Jong's essay in the Wall Street Journal on the Madness of Motherhood and I yawned. Ho hum. She isn't saying anything that Hanna Rosin, Margaret Wente, and plenty of others haven't already said. She sounds like [...]

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Ottawa Schools Survey Teens on Sexual Orientation and More

November 4, 2010




The Internet was abuzz today with information on the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board's plans to survey its student body. According to the Ottawa Citizen's article Board to ask students if they are gay by Matthew Pearson, the school board is going to ask a range of questions to students from Grades 7 to Grade 12, [...]

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Water: Time for Action (Blog Action Day)

October 15, 2010




I wrote this post for inclusion in Blog Action Day 2010. Thank you for reading and helping to spread the message. A lot of my blog readers are women. If you are one of them, consider what you do all day. Think of all the things you get done. You may be caring for your [...]

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