jill meagher’s body found; suspect charged with her rape and murder Jill Meagher, the Irish woman who disappeared without a trace from Sydney Rd, Brunswick in Melbourne in the early hours of Sunday morning, was found dead early Friday morning by homicide police. Meagher was with friends at a bar when she left around 1.30am…
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Marriage Equality in Parliament Lovers of philosophy and online debaters will know that the ‘slippery slope’ argument is a logical fallacy. This week, we saw one of the more absurd examples of it when Liberal senator Cory Bernadi suggested that marriage equality may lead to bestiality. As a result, Tony Abbott decided to relegate him…
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Adelaide women protect themselves from sexual predators A spate of sexual attacks and attempted abductions have happened recently in Adelaide. In response, self-defence classes for women have expanded and more women are walking together to avoid attacks. The city has also extended their CCTV network and police have released images of the attackers. People care…
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Women Destroy the Joint Late last week broadcaster Alan Jones accused women of ‘destroying the joint’ (presumably, he’s referring to the nation when he says ‘the joint’), pointing to Julia Gillard, Clover Moore, and Christine Nixon as examples of what a destructive force women in politics are. Who knows why policies like the carbon tax…
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first female nz soldier killed in afghanistan Lance Corporal Jacinda Barker, a 26 year old medic with the New Zealand Army, became the first female Anzac to die in Afghanistan when her vehicle was struck by an improvised explosive device as she travelled through the Bamiyan Province. New Zealand is just one of the 11…
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pussy riot found guilty Three members of Russian girl band Pussy Riot have been found guilty of hooliganism for staging a protest against President Vladamir Putin at the altar of Moscow’s Christ the Saviour Cathedral in February and sentenced to two years in a labour camp. Judge Marina Sirovaya said that their performance of Punk…
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Harrods has a gender-neutral toy store Boys play with blue toys, they like soldiers and trucks and legos. Girls, on the other hand, play with pink dolls and ponies and princess fairy castles. Or so goes the stereotype, anyway. Enter Harrod’s Toy Kingdom. The 26,000 square foot is not divided or signposted on gender…
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Pussy Riot Punished by God We’ve previously covered some of the protests and the subsequent imprisonment of Russian feminist punk rock band, Pussy Riot. It now seems likely that Pussy Riot may be the undoing of Putin, or will at least be a memorable aspect of his rule. They currently face up to seven years’…
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Since reporters world-over have been sent out to London to cover the Olympics, it seems like a good time to have an Olympic-themed round-up. All our news is on the Olympics anyway. More Women Than Ever More women than ever are competing in the 2012 London Olympics than any previous games. Women are representing nearly…
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Yahoo CEO Pregnant The new female CEO of Yahoo, Marissa Mayer, has announced that she is pregnant via Twitter. At age 37, Mayer is only the 20th woman ever to become a CEO of a Fortune 500 company. There is little or no research tracking whether there have been pregnant Fortune 500 CEOs while in…
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Aiming to be South Korea’s First Woman President Park Geun-Hye, daughter of a former South Korean dictator (who was assassinated) is now aiming to become the first woman president in the nation’s upcoming election. She is operating on a platform of increasing social equality and forging closer diplomatic ties with North Korea. Voters seem…
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Seventeen magazine makes pledge not to alter images All it took was a bit of a push (and an online petition signed by 84,000 people) by a fourteen year old to get Seventeen to vow to use only unaltered images in its publication. As stated in its ‘Body Peace Treaty’ and accompanying note from Editor-in-chief…
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Facebook Names First Woman to Board This week Sheryl Sandberg has become the first woman on Facebook’s board of directors. Sandberg has been the Chief Operating Officer of Facebook since 2008 when she left her job at Google. Before Facebook became a stock listed company, there were calls for them to add a female board…
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Fun with IVF A medical ethics panel in Britain has recently supported IVF in cases of three parents, as long as the procedure is safe and effective. In such cases, the baby would be genetically related to their father (i.e. the sperm donor), and their two mothers – both of whom donate eggs. The procedure…
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