Stephanie Rodgers

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

Category: Health

  • The death-throes of patriarchy

    Another day, another panic-mongering, deceptive, anti-social headline from Family First, as reported on Twitter … This upsets me. Family First & Bob McKoskrie are horrendous. They have no idea what…

  • Midwives deserve equal pay

    It’s another one of those less-easy-to-grasp pay equity cases: the College of Midwives has filed a discrimination suit on the basis that midwives aren’t paid as well as equivalently-skilled/trained/responsible workers…

  • Our kids are still getting sick in unhealthy homes

    Andrew Little put the hard word on John Key over housing in Question Time yesterday: Prime Minister John Key implied that mould problems in some Housing New Zealand homes could…

  • Prolife NZ: importing premium US intimidation tactics

    (Content note: antichoice violence and intimidation tactics) A “pro-life” group in NZ has decided to post an article at their website screaming blue (baby-)murder about the latest smear campaign against…

  • 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…