COSWL Cause

Leaving Their Stamp on History.
The number and nature of female images on stamps thus has become an excellent way to measure the status of women. This exhibit will chronicle the first seventy-five years of the history of American women on stamps – as best as can be done at this point. Like much of women’s history, consistent records are not easily accessible, as even Post Office sources are contradictory. We can say, however, that at least two hundred women have been honored on stamps, with most occurring since the revival of feminism in the 1970s. In recent decades, women have been especially likely to be featured in stamp series that honor a category of achievers, such as aviators or musicians or sports figures.

--see it at the website of the National Women's History Museum.

”We are going to have a number of part-time jobs that are going to be converted to full-time jobs over the life of Collective Agreement," said Bargaining committee chair, Maureen O'Reilly," we have a new three-year Collective Agreement which will now expire at Dec. 31, 2011 and we were able to get some significant improvement in benefits to our part-time workers.”

More full-time jobs and better parental leave are part of a tentative agreement between Toronto Public Library and its 2,400 unionized workers--Toronto Public Library Workers Union (TPLWU) CUPE 4948.
The settlement was reached Wednesday, heading off a strike or lockout that could have started Nov. 9.

Details of the agreement between the library and the Canadian Union of Public Employees Local 4948 weren't released before a ratification vote, which will be held some time next week.

Bargaining committee chair Maureen O'Reilly said relying on part-time workers and automated checkouts compromises service for both library workers and patrons. Following the lead of the Good Jobs campaign this summer by the LCBO union, the library union's approach focused on job quality for the female-dominated workforce.

The "ideal wife" "is happy to see you every time you show up at her door. Your favourite music is already playing, and your favourite drink is on ice. She will never ask you to take out the rubbish."

The men behind Freakonomics offer Prostitution as a career option for women.
Posted by Sady Doyle

The Guardian -
Prostitution for Fun and Profit.
October 22, 2009

Good news, ladies. You, too, can make millions by charging for sex! And you'll just have a slam-bang, gee- golly splendiferous time doing it, too -- at least if you absolutely adore the sort of men who pay for it. Be warned, however: Disliking those men will consign you to the minimum-wage ranks of sex professionals, forever longing for the big bucks you could be earning, had you only an appropriately chipper attitude.

Such is the advice of Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner,of Freakonomics fame. They are back with a new book,Superfreakonomics, and recently they unveiled a bit of it in the form of an excerpt about how to succeed as a prostitute.