Costing women's work

As Lucassen says, "women’s work is often overlooked compared to men’s" (2021, p. 1): I have written about this before (here), but ...

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What is friendship?

I was reading an article in the media where someone had written in to an agony aunt saying: a friend of theirs had separated from their lo...

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Women's work

I was reading "The Story of Work" (Lucassen, 2021) this week, encountering "Today, most people on this planet spend more than...

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Accidents with statistics

I read a national news article earlier this year which announced boldly that "You’re more likely to hurt yourself while wearing jandals...

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The issue of pay parity

Pay parity across genders is an issue which is proving very 'stubborn' to shift in our societies - our progress in Aotearoa New Zeal...

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What field is career development in?

Career practice is a “social activity”, usually focused around ideas of work or life roles, “engaged in by a career practitioner and a clien...

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Women apply when 100% qualified - busted

A student was telling me how in past roles they would start well, but become bored. While we all enjoy a fresh challenge and learning new th...

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What is a choice?

A friend of mine was on a flight from Tokyo to Beijing, just pre-Covid, and found himself sitting next to a young Chinese woman. As he was w...

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Who holds the power?

Power relationships really change how we look at things. For example, the term 'man-splaining' is not reversed as 'fem-splaini...

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Bias: up the lead judging

I was recently reading a post on LinkedIn which talked about the marker bias that we can introduce without realising it. This is why secon...

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Hiring on skill

The 'big five' US orchestras - the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra, th...

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Leadership's many guises

Becky Hammon was a US Women's National Basketball Association player, playing with the San Antonio Stars and New York Liberty. Now retir...

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