international women’s day

To mark International Women’s Day this month, people are being urged to make a ‘pledge for parity’ to remove inequality form the workplace. The choice of the word parity in this slogan gives it a pleasant alliteration, but it is also a more formal word and is more suggestive… Read More

Happy International Women’s Day (on Sunday)! Or Happy International Wimmin’s Day, if you are either a) one of the tiny minority of radical second wave feminists who adopted the aberrant spelling as a means of protesting against the word’s apparent derivation from ‘men’, thus mimicking and enshrining women’s supposed derivation… Read More