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 [...]

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

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,

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

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