Happy International Women's Day!

[Louise Sylvester]

International Women's Day was marked in the Metro (widely distributed
free newspaper in the UK) by a story on the gap between women and men in
status, security and pay; a piece on women starting up businesses being
charged by banks 1% more in interest rates on loans; and an article
about a planned police crackdown on gangs who bring women to Britain to
sell as sex slaves. I noticed these because it's Gender in the Workplace
week on my Language and Gender course.

 

There are also a story about a single mother who was told that her son
is being taken off the waiting list for a kidney transplant because she
is too stressed to cope with the transplant and caring for him
afterwards (she says, but then he'll die, God forbid, and you'll see how
stressed I can be) and a piece mothers who are dying needlessly around
the world because they cannot get proper health care. 

 

It seems that we need International Women's Day to be more than a
celebration.

 

Louise

 

Louise Sylvester

Senior Lecturer in English

School of English

University of Central England in Birmingham

 

  _____  

From: International Gender and Language Association
[mailto:GALA-L at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Jane Sunderland
Sent: 08 March 2007 09:20
To: GALA-L at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG
Subject: Happy International Women's Day!

 

A very happy Happy International Women's Day to everyone! 

 

Let's not let this important day go unrecognised (as it sadly tends to
in the UK).

 

Jane

 

 

 

Jane Sunderland

Director of Studies, PhD in Applied Linguistics by Thesis and Coursework
and New Route PhD

Dept. of Linguistics and English Language

Lancaster University

Lancs. LA1 4YT

 

j.sunderland at lancs.ac.uk

 

For the new Gender and Language Journal (details and subscriptions), see

 

http://www.equinoxpub.com/journals/main.asp?jref=60

 

 


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