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  • US women: time to end sexist media portray of women in politics
    2 September 2010 | 9:24 am

    A new group NameItChangeIt has been formed by women in the US to document and combat sexist portrayal of women in public life.  Read the article

  • Special measures to promote women’s employment are NOT in breach of the Sex Discrimination Act
    6 July 2010 | 12:00 pm

    Letter to the Australian Financial Review by the Sex Discrimination Commissioner:

    Your article entitled “ASX gender targets raise legal danger” (July 5) argues that listed companies risk breaking the law by pursuing gender targets required by the Australian Securities Exchange.

    This risk does not arise if the action taken by the company is a “special [...]

  • Janet Albrechtson’s low blow
    27 May 2010 | 12:06 pm

    Ideas obviously failed The Australian‘s vituperative columnist in her blog yesterday so she had to resort to attacking for me as “ageing”. She might have meant it as insult but I wear my years proudly. Read her ill-informed rant here

  • Gender Equity Stats
    30 April 2010 | 3:23 pm

    As requested, I am posting this summary of the disparities in pay and other indicators between women and men in Australia. The stats were prepared by the Sex Discrimination Commissioner, Elizabeth Broderick, in 2009 but the situation has changed little, if at all, since then:  Gender Equality Stats 2009,

  • A wonderful BBC archive on the second wave
    14 April 2010 | 3:48 pm

    The history of the second wave women’s movement captured via speeches and interviews. See it here

  • Nina Funnell on young feminists
    13 April 2010 | 4:58 pm

    Funnell, journalist and student, has written an insightful opinion piece which is published online today in The National Times generational differences in feminism. Read the article

  • The President takes the picture
    4 April 2010 | 7:16 pm

     

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Will women deliver victory to Gillard?

My article in last Saturday’s Age looks at the gender gap in support for Prime Minister Julia Gillard and the diabolical attempts to undermine it – at the cost of a Labor victory this coming Saturday. Read the article

The Lost Mother short-listed for the Age Book of the Year

I am honoured to have been short-listed for the non-fiction category of this award, along with several other wonderful memoirs by women writers.  The winner is announced on August 27.

The Ability to Connect

The Age
June 26, 2010

It is Gillard’s ability to connect with, surprise and delight a wide range of people that is her ace card, writes Anne Summers.

THERE’S a story in Sydney, perhaps apocryphal but certainly instructive, of how some time last year the hard men of the NSW Labor Party (the “Sussex Street assassins” as Tony Abbott would have it) reacted nervously to the news that Julia Gillard was planning to attend a big function in the western suburbs.

How would the traditional women of the west react to the deputy prime minister, the backroom boys fretted? After all, she is single, has no kids and lives with a hairdresser. They made some inquiries. The feedback shocked them. These supposedly traditional women had no problem with Julia’s marital status, envied her freedom from the responsibility of children and, most of all, were in awe of her for choosing a hairdresser for a partner!

Read the full article: The ability to connect