Pregnancy
You gotta love The Daily Mail. After spending the last twenty years telling women that having a career and a family is bad and wrong (how dare we! How very dare we!), they've changed their minds! Now they've decided that the reason women don't get promoted is because they don't have kids. Because childless women are 'cold, odd and somehow emotionally deficient in an almost dangerous way'.
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Women's "Ishoos"
A report picked up today by the Beeb highlights the disparity between male and female redundancies that prompts the *interesting* headline 'Downturn "Hitting women harder."
The research, undertaken by the Trades Union Congress, found that the female redundancy rate for women had risen by 2.3%, almost double the rate for men. So far, so tuttable. But it's not really as though an unemployed woman is now more of an issue than in previous recessions...is it?
TUC general secretary Brendan Barber said it was going to be an "equal opportunities recession", compared to the aftermath of Britain's previous economic downturns.
Oh, great. Cheers for that.
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How to...
It is never too late to turn the tide, Lesley Garner wrote in The Telegraph yesterday:
"It doesn't matter how old you are: you are never too young or too old to feel stuck or, far better, to get un-stuck. I have seen teenagers sobbing that their life is a failure and I have seen 90-year-olds begin an exciting new life in a different country.
"Take a few deep breaths and remember a mantra, murmured by a slave in the ear of triumphant Roman generals: "This also will pass." The good things pass, and the bad things, too. The important thing is to keep dancing."
But how do you get unstuck? How do you 'keep dancing'?
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Women's "Ishoos"
Private sector companies may have to publish details of any gender gaps in their pay grades, the Guardian reports.
The government's equality office is attempting to address the gender pay discrepancy with a bill due to be published early this year.
Currently only public sector companies have to 'fess up to gender pay inequalities. And private sector business leaders are not happy.
"The Confederation of British Industry complained that forcing companies to produce "meaningless statistics" would do little to tackle the underlying causes of inequality, while the Federation of Small Businesses said the response was "over-prescriptive".
More over the jump...
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Polls
This Friday, the London Ambulance service (LAS) is setting up a "drunk tent" behind Liverpool Street station to treat office party over-indulgers in an effort to keep them out of hospital.
"The reality is that someone who is drunk doesn't need a hospital bed. Not when there are true sick people out there waiting for an ambulance," says Mr Lesslar, duty station officer for City and Hackney.
The tent is actually a field hospital - the kind they use in war zones or in areas of natural disaster.
Which is fair enough - office parties can qualify as both.
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Polls
When I was studying for my GCSEs, I remember hearing someone on the local radio station discussing the merits of listening to music during revision sessions. I needed no further reason to whack up the volume on OK Computer and The Fat Of The Land (have you guessed the year yet?), and since then I've always played music while I worked.
It's fine when you get to choose the tunes yourself, but what if you're one of many in a workspace? The factory I worked at in school holidays would never budge from the local dance music station, and subsequent offices have kept strictly to one channel, usually the one with five ever-repeating tunes.
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Work and Business
What's the best thing about being freelance? (Aside from watching Neighbours at lunchtime?) I don't have to work in an office. I don't have to work with the "annoying office girl who makes you want to tear your hair out."
Most of you probably do though, so here's my Top 10 Annoying Office Girls You Could Live Without.
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In The News...
There's a fashionable theory knocking around that men are better at taking risks and that, as Alice Miles wrote in the New Stateman recently, a few more women around might've stymied the current finance crisis. Noorjehan Barmania disagrees: "Women can be highly aggressive risk-takers and are easily as bullish as men. The appetite for power seems to equalise the genders." Discuss?
Everyone's going on about the pictures of Serena Williams in her bikini... but am I the only one who thinks she looks amazing?
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In The News...
Gok Wan's new show attempts to redefine the meaning of 'beauty'. Which might sound ambitious, or possibly missing the point, or something... but is certainly an interesting idea.
And one for those of us still slightly creeped out by the idea of 'human eggs' - a woman writing in in The Times today has had her eggs frozen.
Find out why everyone loves Tina Fey, over on the BBC site.
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In The News...
The Sex and the City movie is the fastest selling DVD of the year having flogged more than 920,000 copies IN THE FIRST WEEK. I have it, with extras! Stand by for Dollymix review next week.
Lots of motherhood/pregnancy related content in The Guardian at the moment, here's one about being a real-life soccer mom that I enjoyed.
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