Stephanie Rodgers

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

Tag: paid work

  • No shit: money alleviates poverty

    It’s understandable why we’ve generally accepted the rightwing line that “you can’t just throw money at the problem” of poverty. It seems far too simple: people do not have enough…

  • The best arguments for a living wage are its opponents

    The fundamental difference between the left and the right is that the left think people are more important than money. That statement usually raises the hackles of nice moderate rightwingers,…

  • Anne Tolley says another unbelievably gross thing

    At this point, dear readers, I’m starting to ask myself if Anne Tolley is either a masterful piece of anti-Tory performance art, or sacrificing her own humanity in order to…

  • 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 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,…