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Boys have done it forever. Often progressing through the decades from road trips as teens, to football trips in their twenties, to golf trips forever after. But any old banner will do to justify a boys’ trip. The institution is deeply rooted in our culture. It’s even got its own code. Most of which I’m not privy to, though the overarching dictate that, “What Happens On The Trip Stays On The Trip”, has spread into general society.

What kids?

There are many trailblazing female trippers, but in terms of cultural centrality the girls’ trip has some way to go by comparison. One type of girls’ trip that is clearly on the ascendant though, is the mothers’ trip.

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  • Markus says:

    03:06pm | 02/05/12

    I find it depressing that a substantially large portion of the western world now regard the exchange of currency for goods and services to be a pasttime. No wonder the world economy is screwed. Read more »

  • Over here says:

    02:29pm | 02/05/12

    Bev says: “That movie sterotyped all men as bastards…....” I wouldn’t say Thelma’s husband fit that bill, he was so shocked that the cop had to point out he was standing in the pizza box. Read more »

 

Is there one clear possible area of policy reform that would provide a good basis for making society more civil? A core issue that affects a range of social well being indicators and our life choices? Could too much to do and longer working hours be at the heart of the discontents and social inadequacies of contemporary life?

In the future, technological advances will shorten working hours. Pic: AFP

Reducing standard working hours would challenge some basic political and social assumptions such as the ways our time is allocated between paid work and the rest of our lives. In most developed nations, we have moved in the opposite direction, from long-term commitments to reduce standard working hours (48 hours to 35) in the last century to implicit support for ever longer working hours. 

I remember debates in the 60s and 70s about how we might use the increased leisure that we expected to come from technological change and automation. 

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  • Peter John says:

    09:14pm | 23/02/11

    Hate to break it to you Jenna, but the Women’s Liberation Movement was encouraged and funded by the Rockefeller family and other banking dynasties to make more money by increasing the active workforce by….. 100 percent! And the fairer sex thought it was all their idea! Read more »

  • Tom Walker says:

    11:06am | 23/02/11

    Hi Sarah, Your “lump of labour” fallacy is bogus. Yeah, I know, it’s been in textbooks and wikipedia but that’s only because the authors repeated what they were taught without checking the sources. When I first heard the fallacy claim I thought something was fishy so I checked the sources.… Read more »

 

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