Stephanie Rodgers

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

Category: Wages

  • More meaningless numbers

    It’s that time of year when the Government trumpets the success of its welfare reforms. Look! they cry, benefit numbers are down! The repressive, labyrinthine, victim-blaming system works! I’ve written…

  • The pay gap in Hollywood – and the rest of the world

    The Sony hack just keeps hurting, with revelations about the pay gap between male and female actors leading one leading lady to demand a raise: After leaked emails in the…

  • The cost of a bowl of Weet-Bix

    One of the most dishonest arguments the right ever put forward on the subject of poverty is around one of the simplest things in life: a bowl of Weet-Bix. Yesterday…

  • Raising the minimum wage

    Labour and the Greens have both committed to raising the minimum wage in government. During the last leaders’ debate I got a few tweets from people insisting that raising the…

  • Hey Jordan, pick me!

    Yesterday Jordan Williams – head of the Taxpayers’ Onion and courageous fighter for the right to call women ugly in private – sent out a tweet which got me all…