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Why only half of us can have it all

Once, if a newspaper or magazine wanted to sell extra copies, it would put a banner headline ”What Do Women Want?” on the front page.

These days, the attention-grabber is ”Can Women Have It All?”

We’ve come a long way, baby.

If once we were vapid creatures who, in the view of Sigmund Freud, could not [...]

Painful, impractical, and perverse: the shoes designed to bring women to heel

ON A scale of one to 10, where 10 is president George Bush vomiting into the lap of the Japanese prime minister at a banquet back in 1992, Julia Gillard slipping out of her shoes and taking a tumble in India this week should barely register as a diplomatic embarrassment.

Yet to read some of the [...]

Gillard and the gender issue

Prime Minister Gillard faces a ballot in her party room tomorrow (February 27)  to retain her leadership of the ALP and her job as leader of the country. In my article in today’s newspapers in Sydney and Melbourne (the Sunday Age and the Sun-Herald) I examine the relentless slurs against her because of her gender.  [...]

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