Fifty shades most loved book of 2012 The Fifty Shades trilogy has claimed the top three spots on the list of bestsellers in Australia for 2012. The first in the series, Fifty Shades of Grey, sold a reported 1.3 million copies on our shores in the last year, a definitive success for the series despite…
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Firing women for being ‘too attractive’ is a thing An American dentist was ruled to have acted legally when he fired an assistant that he found attractive simply because he and his wife viewed the woman as a threat to their marriage. The all-male Iowa Supreme Court ruled 7-0 that bosses can fire employees they…
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Many Women Go Homeless Around 46,000 women were homeless on Census night 2011, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, a good number of whom were sleeping on the street, or staying with friends or family or living in insecure/short-stay accommodation. Sixty six per cent of homeless children are accompanied by the care of a…
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Most Influential Australian Women Fairfax website Daily Life has compiled a list of Australia’s 20 Most Influential Female Voices. Prime Minister Julia Gillard takes out top honours, mostly for that misogyny speech. Gillard commented: ‘I thought I had given a hard-hitting speech but I didn’t have any inkling of the effect of it…I said to…
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Surge of Aboriginal Women in Jail An ABS report shows the number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander female prisoners has risen by 20 per cent since June 2011, compared with a 3 per cent rise in non-Aboriginal female prisoners. The problem is not that Aboriginal women are simply innately more criminal, but rather they…
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Gillard calls out Abbott (again) The AWU scandal, involving allegations that Prime Minister Julia Gillard was responsible for unethical conduct back in her days as a lawyer at Slater and Gordon, just keeps going. On the last sitting day of Parliament this year, Abbott has called for a judicial inquiry into the matter and demanded…
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six year old girl questions board game gender bias A six-year-old Irish girl has been the latest to call ‘sexism’ when she questioned board game creator Hasbro about the gender imbalance in her favourite board game, Guess Who? In an email to Hasbro she said: ‘I think it’s not fair to only have 5 girls…
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Uganda to pass bill to harshly punish homosexuality In Uganda, homosexual sex is already considered a crime. In 2009, lawmakers with the ruling party said a stronger law was needed to protect Uganda’s children from homosexuals. People in the party said that Western homosexuals in particular ‘recruited’ young Ugandans to the ‘gay lifestyle’. The bill…
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Four more years thanks to feminism This week (just in case you missed it) Obama won the US Presidential election against his Republican opponent, Mick Romney. A survey by the pollsters YouGov of 36,000 Americans in final week of campaign gave the incumbent president a 12 point lead among women, by 56 per cent to…
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Historic: Equal Pay This week, legislation passed which will lock in equal pay increases for 150,000 social and community services sector workers. This legislation means that workers in one of Australia’s lowest paid industries, which comprises mostly of women, will enjoy a pay increase. The increases follow Fair Work Australia’s landmark decision in February to…
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Melbourne Reclaims the Night Following the death of Jill Meagher, Melbourne feminists held a Reclaim the Night event earlier this week. Around 5,000 people marched in order to take a stand against victim blaming and to campaign for the end to violence against women. Read a speech given at the event here. The many kinds…
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australia has a new favourite word Julia Gillard’s headline-grabbing speech this month has led to bickering over the definition of misogyny. Susan Butler, editor of the Australian Macquarie Dictionary, last week explained a decision to widen the official meaning of misogyny from ‘a hatred of women’ to include ‘an entrenched prejudice against women’. In the Federal…
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Gillard makes awesome speech while single parents get raw deal Earlier this week, lip reported on Julia Gillard’s speech which in fifteen minutes thoroughly took down Tony Abbott and labelled him a hypocrite for suggesting that she was being misogynistic because she wanted to leave the Peter Slipper affair to the courts. While mainstream journalists…
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Tony Abbott is a feminist now There are numerous politicians who call themselves “feminists” as a trick to pretend that their bizarre beliefs are pro-woman. Sarah Palin, for instance. Joining their ranks is Tony Abbott, who despite thinking that virginity is a girl’s ‘greatest gift’, proved once and for all that he is a feminist…
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