Stephanie Rodgers

Feminist, leftie, green māmā from Te Whanganui-a-Tara

Category: Wages

  • In defence of actually standing for something

    Rob Salmond has a post up at Public Address, In defence of the centre, to which Mike Smith has written a response at The Standard. It’s an argument I’m a…

  • When are identities political?

    Morgan Godfery has a great post up at The Ruminator about the Auckland housing/Chinese surnames story. His last paragraph inspired me to start jotting down notes for this post on…

  • Not the “end to zero hour contracts” you were looking for

    We have two options before us, New Zealand. Either Michael Woodhouse still hasn’t had anyone explain the difference between zero hour contracts – which are exploitative trash – and casual…

  • Older white men paid double young ethnic women

    That’s not my headline. That’s Stuff’s business section’s headline. Middle-aged white men might be sick of being cast as villains, but a report suggests they should check their privilege. And…

  • Our assumptions about work and workers

    Yesterday I posted about sexist discrimination in the workplace, and noted: So there’s the gendered, identity-politics side of the argument. But there’s a slightly broader set of assumptions in play,…