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Why do women teachers like me treat being a boy as an illness?

Thursday, September 2nd, 2010

In a study presented this week, researchers demonstrated that girls as young as four believe they are cleverer, try harder and are better behaved than boys of the same age.

Hard-working mums do the jobs of at least 23 DIFFERENT people

Wednesday, September 1st, 2010

The average mother is a multi-tasking genius tackling everything from hairdressing to events organising, finding time to work as a taxi service, travel agent and teacher in her ’spare’ time.

Boys ‘being held back by women teachers’ as gender stereotypes are reinforced in the classroom

Wednesday, September 1st, 2010

Women teachers are holding back boys by reprimanding them for typically male behaviour, including schoolboy pranks and being silly according to a study out today.

‘Bullied’ BBC worker who queried boss’s £250,000 payout given £30k to drop tribunal case

Wednesday, September 1st, 2010

Indira Histon, 34, a human resources manager, said she was asked to lie to lawyers so the boss would receive a two-year pay-off in breach of BBC guidelines.

Employment law: Equal pay

Sunday, August 29th, 2010

A recently released 71 page Draft Code of Practice on Equal Pay might well cause some knitted eyebrows – and even the odd protruding lower lip.

Sleeping with your boss can ‘boost your career and give you a promotion… especially if you’re a woman’

Friday, August 27th, 2010

Some 34 per cent of women in executive positions said they knew a female colleague who had slept with their boss.

Prada counter-sues former employee who claims she was told to axe ‘old fat and ugly staff’

Friday, August 27th, 2010

Prada has counter-sued a former manager who claims she was told by bosses to fire ‘old fat and ugly staff’.

Budget ‘hit poor families hardest’: Changes cost poorest households £423 a year

Wednesday, August 25th, 2010

Respected think-tank disputes claims by Chancellor George Osborne that his measures were progressive – saying they were ‘clearly regressive’.