Canadian study finds mothers & babies much less likely to be injured in homebirth
Via Science and Sensibility, this new homebirth study out of British Columbia should be required reading for our Health Department and policy-makers: “Outcomes of planned home birth with registered midwife versus planned hospital birth with midwife or physician”[1]. This high-quality study compared equivalent-risk homebirths (HB), midwife-attended hospital births (Midwife-in-Hospital, MiH), and doctor-attended hospital births (Doctor-in-Hospital, [...]
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Past Editions First Edition: , 6th June 2008 at Hoyden About Town Second Edition: 4th July, 2008 at In A Strange Land Third Edition: 7th August, 2008 at Audrey and the Bad Apples Fourth Edition: 1st September, 2008 at Blue Milk Fifth Edition: 1st October, 2008: Hell On Hairy Legs Sixth Edition: 3rd November, 2008: [...]
Quickhit: Pay transparency
The Federal Government is being pressured to force companies to reveal how their pay rates for men and women compare.
Credit where credit is due, says judge to child rapist
You know, I don’t even blog most of the instances I come across of “it’s not sex, it’s rape”, because there’s so bloody many of them. This one cheesed me the fuck off tonight. [Child sexual abuse warning.] Police decry ‘slap on wrist’ for illegal sex [...] One of the men, Justin Charles Mudimbu, a [...]
Inaccurate contraceptive info from National Prescribing Service
One of the key pieces of information we need when choosing contraception is accurate data on effectiveness. What is the likelihood that your birth control will stop you getting pregnant? We are presented with pretty charts by family planning counsellors, doctors, midwives; sometimes we are told a little more about “real world” and “perfect use” [...]
Tom Calma: Indigenous Advisory Body to have Full Gender Equality at All Levels
Tom Calma, the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, announced today at the National Press Club the proposed formation of a new national advisory body to bring the voice of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders to the Minister, Parliament, and bureaucrats. Tom Calma is lder from the Kungarakan tribal group and a member [...]
Double Standard?
In other news, apparently Australia is done for now that we’ve lost the Ashes, were beaten by the All Blacks in [proper] rugby, and our Miss Australia came fourth in the Miss Universe contest. Can things get any worse?
Crikey! Where Are All The Women? Poll time.
Crikey is opening a new blog just for women! Should they paint it:(surveys) Please feel welcome to add your suggestions for banner imagery in your comments. Or mock up your own banner, and share. Related posts: Quickhit: Invisible women, invisible politics Troll-Off: Poll results But why are women so worried about their looks? Packer lacked [...]
How many things wrong with this idea?
blue milk: who knew there was so much to say about feminist motherhood? (Cross-posted over there). This is the current cover of The Main Edge and their faaascinating lead story on alcoholic milkshakes – “Milkshakes aren’t just for kids anymore”. Hence, the issue becomes how to combine the delicious, youthful chill of ice cream with [...]
Belated Friday Hoyden: Ada Lovelace
A big hat tip, or a doff rather, with a big Victorian-era hat – something tall and full of mercury— to Nabs, who has sent me a link to the most wonderful thing on the entire Internets.
No, not the guy who can catch a laptop in his buttocks, although that is definitely up there. I mean the Lovelace and Babbage graphic novel / blog.
On unexamined privileges and unconscious behaviours
Is there anyone reading along here who knows enough feminist theory to grok the concept of unexamined privilege who doesn’t believe in unconscious/subconscious sexism? Surely we all know by now that many if not most of the most insidious and difficult to change sexist behaviours are those that operate as unexamined habits rather than conscious choices.
Quickhit: Invisible women, invisible politics
Blokes at Crikey are wondering why they don’t have more female subscribers, and “Where are Australia’s female political bloggers?” Excerpts from the thread: Possum Comitatus: “Something that has surprised me for a while on the gender balance of the Australian political net is the lack of big female political bloggers. We have Kim and Anna [...]
Made of Win
Being expected to swallow shit about womanhood in a social situation is just the norm, and any woman who lets swallowing shit obviously affect her, let alone vocalise objections to swallowing shit, is ruining everyone else’s fun. Funny how expecting women to swallow shit is never seen as ruining women‘s fun.
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