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Parents who don’t work full-time are disadvantaging their children? Whaaat?

November 24, 2016 by Sonia Bowditch Comments Off on Parents who don’t work full-time are disadvantaging their children? Whaaat?

As a parent, there is nothing like peer pressure to make you change your ways.  And if you believe what journalist and mum Natasha Robinson tells you in her recent article for The Australian, that ‘home is so old school,’ then you will enrol your child in after-school-care for the upcoming term tout de suite! […]

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After-school-care, Childhood, Education, full-time work, Parenting, Work/Life Balance
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Bugger Off, Feminist Movement.

February 22, 2013 by Sonia Bowditch 2 Comments

Yesterday I read on Daily Life a transcript of an interview between regular contributor Clementine Ford and feminist stalwart Anne Summers. During this interview, Summers laments the fact that only 38 per cent of educated Gen X women are in full-time jobs compared to 90 per cent of educated Gen X men. Why aren’t more […]

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domestic duties, Feminism, full-time work, Gender Equality, SAHMs, Work/Life Balance
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