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Coles Targets Women, Pays GST on Feminine Hygiene Products
It's not often that supermarkets tempt shoppers with cheap tampons. Yet that's exactly what supermarket giant Coles has done with week-long special on the price of all feminine hygiene products bought in stores. What is clever about the discount is that they are just taking of the GST, i.e. the "luxury" tax imposed by the government on many...
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Demeaning Term of the Day: ‘Cuddle Count’
Working mothers, do you feel guilty that you don't love your kid enough? Well you can sleep a little easier tonight knowing the results of a new study: it turns out there is very little difference between how much time the babies of full-time working mothers are held, cuddled, read to and talked to compared with babies of mothers who do not work....
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Send Your Daughter To Wife Camp – Shudder
Ah, now I know why my “hostessing skills” are off. My parents never sent me to make-over camp. THANK GOD. Because apparently you can send your ten- to fourteen-year-old daughters to be Stepfordized, er, finished off, at a camp in Canada this summer. At Make-Over Camp, they’re not taking the ugly duckling and turning her into a beautiful...
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Let’s Not Let Our Little Girls Get ’stupid’
I don’t have a little girl of my own, so I live through my friends with daughters. One 6-year-old lass I’m keeping my eye on, for instance, likes to pee standing up when she’s naked in the summer (quite impressive!) and take unexpected nose dives onto patches of ice in the winter. When I look at her doing such things, I am heartened by...
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Do Mothers Give Up Too Much?
I worked from home part-time for the first six years of my son’s life. I was very lucky in many ways to have this option as it meant I didn’t miss a single step, a tooth, a word. I was there for everything. But all the while, I have to say I felt a level of anxiety about the fact that I wasn’t paying into a superannuation fund, my income w...
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Italians Officially World’s Laziest Men
When it comes to leisure time, Italian men have it sorted. According to the results of a study published in The Economist, gentiluomos have it much easier than signoras, generally scoring around 80 minutes extra leisure time. They're not alone - men actually enjoy more leisure time than women in every one of 18 countries examined by the OECD....
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Toys R Us Can’t Be Serious. But They Are.
Does your daughter have a burning desire to play Ouija board? But clearly she can’t since the game is totally for boys? Well, for only $US19.99, you can make your daughter’s dream come true, because Hasbro just came out with a new “just for girls” Ouija board! What makes this edition different from the original Ouija board that can be h...
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Is Your Child In Your Facebook Profile Pic?
If you use your child's picture in your Facebook profile, Katie Roiphe thinks you are hiding behind your child's identity. In a piece for excellent new women's interest site DoubleX, Roiphe writes, "If Betty Friedan were to review the Facebook habits of the over-30 set, she would turn over in her grave. By this I mean specifically the trend of wom...
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Bye Bye Barbie: Girls Ditch Dolls For Technology
Did you know it's not cool to play with dolls anymore? A new survey of 2500 Australians has found that while the mothers of today's children stopped playing with dolls between the ages of 10 and 11, their daughters were discarding dolls at an average age of six or seven. Researcher Mark McCrindle told the SMH, "These kids are 'up-ageing', th...
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