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Anti-Beauty: Destabilise your Femininity and do harm to Capitalism

by Emma-Rose Cornwall

| Features
February 29, 2012

I challenge you. Many times another woman has said to me that although she believes her feminine appearance is a free choice she has made based on an innate feeling about high heels, flowery frocks and golden curls, she is nonetheless anxious and unhappy with her appearance. If you also...
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Why there should be legal quotas for women in jobs

by Jo Woode

| EconomiX, WorkLife
February 28, 2012

To unlock the potential of talented female workers and to improve diversity, introducing legal quotas may be the way forward.Quotas are an efficient mechanism to enhance women’s representation in the workplace and, most importantly, into the roles that they deserve. Women make up half the population but only ten per...
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And the Job Description?

by Guest Contributor

| Grapevine, Words
February 28, 2012

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The Temptress and the Gold-Digger: Sexual Harassment in the Workplace

by Meghan Larywon

| Society, VoiceIt
February 27, 2012

Worldwide, between 15 and 76% of women are victims of physical and/or sexual violence during their lifetimes. On a global scale, one in ten workers experience sexual harassment in the workplace. In our “modern” societies, it seems unbelievable that sexual violence and harassment – ranging from rape, physical and/or verbal...
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The Brits awards: a triumph (and not because of the music)

by Jodie Nesling

| Society, VoiceIt
February 26, 2012

Working out in the gym is a hideous preoccupation of mine. It’s easy to become intimidated by the heaving, sweating bodies that stare at you whilst declaiming: “Look at me! oogle my honed body and feel inadequate. DO IT.” The perpetrators are not the muscle-bound psychos found in the free-weights...
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Recovery

by Joanna Patricia Caveney

| Cognizance, Society
February 25, 2012

Recovering anorexics often call themselves thus. Between the illness and the recovery, their identity lies permanently inside the parameters of these two posts, life consistently defined by the position they are occupying in a relationship/ union from which they are seemingly inseparable. With the latest research investigating the thought processes...
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You Have An Idea, What Next?

by Jo Woode

| EconomiX, KickStart
February 24, 2012

Endless chatter and procrastination are just some of the reasons for brilliant ideas to fall at the first hurdle. You may have come up with “an amazing idea – possibly the best since sliced bread” and are filled with a burning desire to successfully turn a business idea in to...
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We Love Silicon Implants But Not Silicon Valley

by Jo Woode

| EconomiX, WorkLife
February 22, 2012

Why are there less Women in technology? A strong desire to boost self esteem is one of many complex reasons why women go under the knife to boost their breast size. Unfortunately, the labour of love for silicon does not stretch beyond Silicon Valley. Women may be snapping up silicone implants...
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Sometimes all it takes is learing the skill of delegation

by Guest Contributor

| Grapevine, Words
February 22, 2012

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Thoughts on Perfection (and saving insects)

by Siobhan Fields

| OurLives, Society
February 21, 2012

Perfection is a weird word. It’s weird in that I don’t believe it is ever possible to be it. A meal can or a holiday can be it, as can a way of describing how a job interview or marriage proposal went. But people can’t be it which is a good...
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