This and that
Jun. 6th, 2004 11:19 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
julietIntend to manage a proper update this evening, after the london.crafts meet, but in the meantime....
Greenpeace Rainbow Warrior crew take up knitting. I also discovered this week, from a friend who knows someone who roadied for the Breeders, that Kelley Deal used to knit when on tour as well. When she wasn't out of it on heroin, anyway...
The joys of new US immigration procedures - bloody scary. I am increasingly inclined just never to go to the US again.
Women choosing to be full-time mothers instead of staying with their former paid jobs. Now, obviously I am fully in favour of women choosing to arrange their lives as they wish, and giving up paid work in favour of full-time parenting is fine. But what struck me about that article was the complete absence of any comment on the role of fathers. Several of these women's partners are mentioned as working ridiculous hours - not getting in till 9 at night, for example. So these kids may be growing up with lots of attention from their mothers, but they're getting very little at all from their fathers. The continuing attitude that parenting is a woman's job really *does* disturb me. What we should be looking at is both improved legal rights for paternity leave, and in general a culture in which flexible working patterns are available for *everyone* (&, by the by, that does include those who choose not to have kids as well). And, more importantly, are *acceptable*, in that working 12-hour days isn't considered necessary to advance.
Greenpeace Rainbow Warrior crew take up knitting. I also discovered this week, from a friend who knows someone who roadied for the Breeders, that Kelley Deal used to knit when on tour as well. When she wasn't out of it on heroin, anyway...
The joys of new US immigration procedures - bloody scary. I am increasingly inclined just never to go to the US again.
Women choosing to be full-time mothers instead of staying with their former paid jobs. Now, obviously I am fully in favour of women choosing to arrange their lives as they wish, and giving up paid work in favour of full-time parenting is fine. But what struck me about that article was the complete absence of any comment on the role of fathers. Several of these women's partners are mentioned as working ridiculous hours - not getting in till 9 at night, for example. So these kids may be growing up with lots of attention from their mothers, but they're getting very little at all from their fathers. The continuing attitude that parenting is a woman's job really *does* disturb me. What we should be looking at is both improved legal rights for paternity leave, and in general a culture in which flexible working patterns are available for *everyone* (&, by the by, that does include those who choose not to have kids as well). And, more importantly, are *acceptable*, in that working 12-hour days isn't considered necessary to advance.
