Promoting women is up to the companies

Yes, I know the article is a week old. I’ve been out of the loop. Shoot me.
Maersk promotes female managers
The number of women in top level positions is set to increase significantly in the next five years
The country’s largest company, A.P.Moller-Maersk, has committed to having more female managers within five years.
The company is one of [...]

Vested Interests

Laurelin:
if you are a consumer of pornography, you have a vested interest in it, you benefit from it, and therefore your word on how wonderful and harmless it is is seriously compromised.
And:
Survivors of sexual violence have a vested interest in opposing pornography. Without it, they would benefit from not having their abuse shown over and [...]

Woman wants breast reduction – men across the world weep

And I’m not even kidding. A google search for Simona Halep, a Romanian tennis player, will drag out enough muck that I won’t be linking any of it here. Most of them are writing the same thing anyway. I’ve found you a few choice quotes, though, especially the response to Halep’s own statement, which I [...]

Islamophobia in the name of Freedom

There’s a Danish group called Women for Freedom. Sounds like a good thing, but alas, they are as bigoted as they are active. Their chairwoman wrote (and I’ll translate from the Danish):
I have previously written about a hotel where one of the cleaning assistants were scarf-imprisoned.
Yes, that is what she calls it: Scarf-imprisoned. Because in [...]

Temper, harpiness and gender

I had one of those “hmmm…” moments the other day when talking to my mother. She and my dad work at the same place as teachers, and recently they’ve had some problems with their new boss, and so mails have been exchanged, and diplomacy skills have been exercised.
When my mum told me about how they’d [...]

Unequal Pay: a Phantasm?

Several news sources have posted this story yesterday and today, here’s one of them.
Translated it goes:
Majority of men think equal pay is a reality
They agree to disagree. Danish men and woman have different perceptions of whether equal pay exists. LO wants more facts.
There are no problems with equal pay in Denmark. Two surveys show – [...]

Parents and Paychecks

This Danish survey is from 2006, but there’s no reason to doubt its relevance now three years later.
The set out to find exactly how big the effects of parenting were on people’s paychecks. Including considerations for length of education, parental leave, age of parents and age of kids, etc etc.
I’ll just translate the summay from [...]

The Rights of Pregnant Women: Not a Matter of Equality

In the news yesterday and today a story has emerged that a company has fired 8 women who were either pregnant or on maternity leave. The company is PFA, a company that sells pensions and prides itself of its high morals and ethics. Bad? You bet. A crime? You bet.
When an employer fires a pregnant [...]