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On Our Best Behavior: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Price Women Pay to Be Good
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A “trust-fund baby,” she received $5,000 monthly. It was enough for her to live on—yet it didn’t feel as though the money were really hers. She felt shame at her lack of earnings. She brought no money in except her monthly stipend. Jocelyn often worked, but she worked for free, helping others with their projects and drawing no salary for her input
... See moreJulia Cameron • The Prosperous Heart: Creating a Life of 'Enough'
Some activists demanded wages as a practical solution, while others saw the idea as a tool for challenging deeper systemic issues. In Prof Callaci’s words, it was “the starting point for a more fundamental transformation of our political imagination: the conjuring of a world organized around care rather than capitalist growth, the destruction of th... See more
The Guardian • The Guardian view on women’s unpaid labour: attitudes have shifted, but the burden hasn’t | Editorial
white women make 79 cents compared to a dollar made by a white man, and Black women make 62 cents.1 Sixty-two cents, y’all! Women also pay more for their debt than men,2 are less likely to invest than men,3 and are therefore 80 percent more likely to be impoverished in retirement.4 When it comes to business, women entrepreneurs raise less money tha
... See moreRachel Rodgers • We Should All Be Millionaires
The business of marketing and selling to women literally depends on creating and then addressing female insecurity, and part of the revelatory potential of women’s lib involved rejecting the marketplace’s sweet-talking promises about life-changing face creams and shampoos—not to mention the entire premise of women as decorative objects.