Thursday 29 April 2010

Resisting and Challenging Religious Fundamentalisms

They're not complete yet but you can already read about strategies women have found for combating Christian fundamentalism in Africa here

Thursday 8 April 2010

Teen motherhood is not all bad, says novelist | Books | The Guardian

Teen motherhood is not all bad, says novelist |
Books |
The Guardian

This is something I've been thinking about for a while. Like most women of my age, I was brought up with the idea that you have to get your career sorted before you procreate. Working in Kazakhstan with women of 35 who already had teenage children, I saw an alternative. Hilary Mantel asks us to consider if the 'career, then children' rule is just one more way we have to fit in with the male-oriented working world timetable. Actually the problem with having children early might not be so much about career as about finding the right person to have children with in your early 20s....