These three ego-tripping former businesswomen spent millions of their own money on their unsuccessful quests for public office in the recent US elections. Instead, argued Gail Sheehy, they could have pledged that money to education or other forms of giving to make America a better place for the millions living in poverty and without hope. [...]
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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 [...] As Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard battles to stitch together a coalition so she can form a government, following the tied results of the federal election on August 21, I looked at how two previous women leaders fared: Canada’s Kim Campbell and Israel Tzipi Livni. Read my article 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 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 [...] by Anne Summers Sydney Morning Herald, 25 June 2010 Julia Gillard may have played down the significance of her sex when she became Australia’s first female prime minister yesterday, saying she “did not set out to crash my head against any glass ceilings” and pointing out that she was also the first redhead to lead the [...] |
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