This past weekend some friends came over for a late Sunday lunch. It was a cold, windy early March day, with a blizzard in the forecast.
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This past weekend some friends came over for a late Sunday lunch. It was a cold, windy early March day, with a blizzard in the forecast.
During World War II, when the US government needed to attract female workers, it constructed and heavily subsidized neighborhood child care centers under a program called the Lanham Act.
I call for a default 24-hour work week, which pays a living wage and carries all the benefits of full-time employment.
Bell hooks’ notion of homeplace, domestic environments created to combat racial oppression, has been a major influence on my thinking about the domestic sphere.
In 2007, Petronella Yvonne de Horde was attacked by a silverback gorilla at the Rotterdam zoo. This anecdote came to mind when I read Jennifer Grayson’s Unlatched: The Evolution of Breastfeeding and the Making of a Controversy.
Here's a neat linguistic trick to help identify sexist thinking about the value of women's work.