With student #nurses dropping out of training (or not taking up posts) due to difficulties with #childcare (I'll leave aside the #gendered workforce Q. here), the scale of the problem with England's #NHS workforce planning is revealed by the fact that around 10% of all #nursing vacancies remain unfilled.
And of course, much of this shortfall is being filled by more expensive agency provision....
The failure to solve the staffing crisis in the NHS is just one more aspect of #Tory wrecking!
War on #Pronouns. Irritating in its linguistic ignorance but also saddening as a sign of lack of empathy, of aggressive prejudice, of bullying and possible violence.
I was idly wondering if banning pronouns in English would lead to greater clarity, so I drifted down that rabbit-hole. At first, yes - but then the more examples, the more difficult it became. Everything in third person, with nouns, and much converted to passive ("you can think of...er, no, examples can be thought...").
Musing on #pronouns was triggered by conversation with an English friend who was bemused by the idea that some #languages don't have #gendered pronouns. Not sure said friend believed me.
Considering that language influences thought, I wonder if people whose language has gendered #nouns are less sensitive to it? When your table and chair are female and your plate is male, perhaps it i s less meaningful.
Also, the USian obsession with segregated bathrooms doesn't hold in France.
Nothing #gendered in this web catalog listing for this dog pull. But Carhartt’s #Facebook ad says this is a “Women’s Rubber Handle Monkey Fist Dog Pull” for some unknown reason. #OverlyGenderedAdvertising
Rubber Handle Monkey Fist Dog Pull | Carhartt Brown | #Carhartt
Rise of #AI & #Automation & job losses arising from it likely to disproportionately impact women
With #BasicIncome a ready-made solution to help address #Gendered issues, the argument for #UBI looks to be growing stronger https://zurl.co/zkJp