A friend has alerted me to the release of a report called ‘”The Elephant in the Room”: Working-Time Patterns of Solicitors in Private Practice in Melbourne’. Now that I’ve finished the drudgery of marking, I can give it the proper attention it deserves.
The title is a reference to a comment by Elizabeth Broderick, Sex Discrimination Commissioner, who said in relation to the under-representation of women in senior roles in law firms: Read more »
Before winter set in here in Melbourne, I picked up my daughter from creche.
The carer said, “She didn’t eat any lunch, but she ate all the afternoon tea, which was nachos.”
I was curious. “What was lunch?” I asked.
The carer sighed. “Salad,” she said. I gave her a wry look.
“Yes,” she said, interpreting my wry look correctly, “none of the two year olds eat their salad. But we have to serve food like that because of this emphasis on childhood obesity and healthy eating.” Read more »
Yes, it’s official now - I am expecting Baby No. 2. Well, most of you probably guessed from my post “Pregnancy is not an illness“. Read more »
Dear etc,
“I have contacted the IAS admin about access to this conference before, as well as about access to the Disability Inclusion seminar, and was rebuffed each time. I am contacting you again in the hope that you have had an opportunity to re-think. Read more »
I don’t feel like the best mother today. My daughter was sick last week, and didn’t have to go to creche. I don’t think she had quite realised that she would have to go back this week now that she was better. She screamed “NO CRECHE, WANT TO STAY HOME WITH MUMMY!” and kicked the car and her precious Tigger toy with rage the whole way to creche. She managed to wriggle out of her car seat while we were on the freeway (!!!) which was alarming, to say the least. I had to carry her under my arm, kicking and screaming, into the creche. Sigh. Read more »
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