In Australia in the 21st century the private sector is taking the lead in promoting equality for women in employment and championing women to be leaders in the business world, a field the federal government once had made its own. Read my article in the Sydney Morning Herald, December 18 2010
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In Melbourne later this week they are having an “IQ Debate” on the topic: Has Feminism Failed? The evidence supposedly is that because we have not yet reached the nirvana of equality this is the fault of feminism. When asked about this by the Sunday Age newspaper, I replied that it is society – not [...] 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 [...] Communities in Control Conference 2010, Moonee Valley Racing Club, Melbourne, 1 June 2010 “It is a great honour for me to have been invited to address you today and, especially, to have been introduced by no less a figure than Joan Kirner, whom we all love for the trails she has blazed – especially for women [...] Read my article in the Sydney Morning Herald about what life was like before oral contraceptives. Read article Read my review of Natasha Walter’s book Living Dolls: The Return of Sexism in today’s Australian |
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