‘I’d like to send a hilarious YouTube clip to a friend but I’m worried she’ll think I’m a smug mother,’ says my friend Jennifer.
Under normal circumstances Jennifer’s friend would appreciate the humour and cuteness of a baby playing with a Labrador puppy. But these are not normal circumstances. Jennifer’s friend is trying to conceive… more…
Kasey Edwards has everything she’s always wanted: a successful career and the lifestyle and assets to match. But she’s empty and uninspired and doesn’t want to go to work . . . Ever again.
Terrified that she’ll spend the rest of her life wearing pinstripes and pretending to care about ‘adding value’, Kasey embarks on a quest to rediscover passion and purpose in her life and work.
Message to Jamie Oliver: For many women, breastfeeding isn’t a choice. And if you want to “help mothers and babies” first need to understand that.
In the company of women, there’s more likely to be reciprocity and mutual respect, and a willingness to search for common ground.
For many women, having kids is like landing on the longest snake in life’s game of Snakes & Ladders. You spend years slogging your way up the career ladders, only to land on the motherhood snake and be forced right back to the beginning of the board.