US women: time to end sexist media portray of women in politics

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

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

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