Dismantle the gender stereotypes, not kids’ sex
When I was seven, I asked my mum if I could be a boy. I’m still not ultra-feminine, but I’m glad I wasn’t medicated to make my biological reality align with whatever inner experience I was having.
Virginia Tapscott
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Science shatters the ‘baby brain’ myth
It’s a casual insult deeply rooted in cultural devaluation of care. But it appears neuroscience is finally tipping ‘baby brain’ on its head.
I gave up a career to raise my kids — and I’m tired of hiding
I walked into the delivery ward a disciple of Simone de Beauvoir — a quintessential career woman. I walked out of the hospital a completely changed person.
It’s time to face facts, childcare isn’t improving our quality of life
The conditions children need to thrive are impossible to synthesise in the sanitised confines of formal care.
Families know full well childcare isn’t working
Leading hardworking families to believe that daycare is the only way to have a family and live in relative financial security is economic coercion.
‘I am being shamed for choosing to stay at home with my kids’
“I care for my own kids, so why am I made to feel like a freak?”
I care for my own kids, so why am I made to feel like a freak?
The government wants me to get a ‘real job’. But I don’t want gender equality if it is simply a process of erasing everything that is inherently female.
I’m a young, ambitious woman choosing kids over work
“My position as a mother is steadily being eroded by society. I hope my kids understand that I tried to give them my time, rather than more things.”
Why a career is no match for motherhood
This isn’t a popular thing to be talking about, but admitting that mothers are optimally positioned to become primary caregivers is not reinforcing harmful gender stereotypes.
‘Look at the truth of what is happening in your homes’
When it comes to sexual abuse, we all must find the courage to see things in ourselves or our families that we don’t like or that we are ashamed of.
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