by Natalie Ritchie | Aug 26, 2018 |
I’m job-hunting. I’m a mother. And I have a home to run. You would think that, after more than half a century of feminism, jobs would come designed to fit working mothers. Not a chance. So far, almost every position I’ve applied for has been brutally full-time....
by Natalie Ritchie | Aug 19, 2018 |
A gender pay gap? Really, feminism? Is that our biggest gap-issue? For I can spot plenty of gender gaps—make that abysses—both inside and outside the workplace. And it’s feminism that creates them. Take these gaps: The Unpaid Gap If there is a stand-out...
by Natalie Ritchie | Aug 12, 2018 |
In an eloquent piece last Tuesday, Dr Janice Fiamengo, Professor of English at the University of Ottawa, Canada, made the case that feminism is a religion. While she is right to identify its god as the “divine feminine,” it is also easy to make the opposite case—that...
by Natalie Ritchie | Aug 4, 2018 |
Should Jacinda Ardern, New Zealand’s Prime Minister and mother of a new baby, rewrite the PM’s role to part-time? I said yes, in an opinion piece in the NZ Herald on 21 July. My goal was not to criticise her parenting arrangements, or to imply she should be lead...
by Natalie Ritchie | Mar 26, 2018 |
One day as a 13-year-old girl, I remember gazing out of the back seat window as my mother drove us home from school. It was 1979. I was dreaming of my future career, and ticking off in my mind the occupations I might choose. Book publishing would be great, I thought,...
