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 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 19, 2018 |
All my adult life, I have lived like a man. Enough. As a girl back in the 1970s, strong women surrounded me. My mother, my grandmothers, my four aunts, my great-grandmother and my countless great-aunts were all uninfected by the feminist belief that they were failures...
