Things getting worse for young women?

Or suggest he went to spec Savers!

I think I'd be flattered if a man wolf whistled at me!

but - Labour think a 'pink (magenta) election van' and vows on improving maternity pay and child care provision will appeal to all females
feminism and equal rights is much much wider than that - not to point out that lots of women are concerned with other things besides their child-bearing years
I do think a reminder to the current crop of feminists (I use the term loosely) should be focusing on equal rights in every aspect of life - maybe study suffragette movement and the 1960s - rather than agonising whether men are allowed to wolf whistle at them..

Yes!

I was reading a Swedish paper and they were talking about David Cameron going over there a couple of years ago to see how they sorted out the day care problems. They make the father have time off. They parents are both given so many days, and it has to be split between them. It's over a year in total. That way, the father gets to bond with the child whether he wants to or not. It's really worked well. I know we couldn't implement it immediately over here, I think that's why he increased the father's childcare allowance and time off recently though. I think if he stayed in power it would eventually equal that of the swedes. Every child also has a day care place, which is very cheap. Wouldn't that be wonderful.

Nothing will change until we all start thinking of child care as being the job of both parents.

Social workers and the courts need to change too as there is a presumption that the mother is the best one to parent the children and that she is the honest 'good' person and the father is automatically the 'bad' person. Yes, before anyone berates me I know this isn't always the case and that I have generalised but I can assure you I have seen the way this works in favour of the mother.

It certainly is in the universities, I hope it's elsewhere as well.

Perhaps she is. Hope she'll be in touch.

Meanwhile, take a look at 'Radical Feminism' by Finn Mackay, published this month! I attended a lecture at How the Light Gets In Festival in 2004 (this was recorded so you can watch it if you visit their website) and she makes a lot of sense. Feminism is alive and well.

I just wish feminism was seen as something much bigger than nursery places and household chores. These very words show that what feminists bravely kicked off in the sixties (and of course their even more brave Victorian forbears) have all but been forgotten.
Please, Germaine Greer, give us all a new book.
I wonder, is she on Gransnet?

I think it is much harder for young women today, as whole in the workplace we have achieved increased equality ( with a long way to go still), due to our housing crisis the majority have no choice other than to work, and even with subsidies nursery places are expensive, and they still shoulder the majority of household chores, I dont envy them