Women only spaces on the rise in India. After the 2012 New Delhi bus rape, a woman-only culture has blossomed in India, with women seeking out woman-only hotel floors, cabs and busses. In November the Indian government is launching a bank just for women, to empower them financially. The report rate of sexual violence in…
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Italian gay rights activists are calling for a boycott of pasta company Barilla’s products after its chairman made comments about homosexual families. Chairman of the family-owned business, Guido Barilla, says Barilla advertisements will continue to depict traditional nuclear families enjoying its pasta. ‘For us the concept of the sacred family remains one of the basic…
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This ‘300 Sandwiches’ project will make your feminist blood boil. Another sarcastic feminist hashtag trend has emerged on Twitter in response to this blog and the corresponding article in the New York Post, wherein lady journalist and blogger Stephanie Smith’s boyfriend asked her to make him a sandwich and so she did. She’s now on…
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Newly elected Liberal Democratic Party senator says that if Jill Meagher had a gun she’d be alive today. Liberal Democratic Party senator, David Leyonhjelm, is calling for a change to self defence laws, claiming that Australia should have similar gun laws to the US. In order to support his argument, Leyonhjelm argued that if Jill…
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The New South Wales Parliament is currently debating a Bill which, if passed, would alter the way the criminal law considers a foetus. The Bill (commonly referred to as ‘Zoe’s Law’) is named after the stillborn daughter of Ms Brodie Donegan, who suffered injuries as a result of a car accident in 2009, which resulted…
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The ACT Government has introduced legislation into the Legislative Assembly to allow same-sex marriage in the territory. If the bill passes it will be the first State or Territory in Australia to approve same sex marriage laws. But even now there is speculation that the Federal Government will mount a High Court challenge. The bill…
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In case you missed it: Tony Abbott is now the minister for women. Newly sworn in Prime Minister, Tony Abbott announced his cabinet earlier in the week and we all know how that went down. While Abbott removed numerous ministerial posts such as science, aged care and early childhood, it has been announced that there…
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In this robust piece of political journalism, the few women who got past Tony’s door into the upper echelons of the new government are thoughtfully analysed and critiqued for their policies and stance on national affairs. Lol JK, ladies bring a plate, because this is a good ol’ fashioned ho-down of unnecessary and superficial sexist…
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In case you missed it: Ita Buttrose claims glass ceiling is very much alive in Australia. Australian of the year and all-round-class-act, Ita Buttrose, has openly criticized the lack of women in Tony Abbott’s new cabinet, claiming that it is ‘unacceptable’ in 2013. A trailblazer and longtime women’s advocate, since her days as the founding…
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The cast of Gilmore Girls, the cast of 7th Heaven, the Afghani national cabinet and, if you think about it, most Lynx commercials have more of the lady folk in them than Tony Abbott’s new cabinet. PM Abbott is ‘very disappointed’ that his new line up includes only one female MP. Anyway, that woman, Julie…
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Prime Minister-elect Tony Abbott announces cabinet and, as expected, it’s a sausage-fest. Today Tony Abbott announced his new Prime Ministerial cabinet, and as expected, it is explicitly lacking in ladies. Due to the Coalition agreement with the National Party, although Julie Bishop is the deputy leader of the Liberal Party, it is National Party leader,…
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In his address to the African Union Summit in Ethiopia in January earlier this year, the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon called on States to renew their commitment to the Millennium Development Goals. ‘We have 1,000 days to reach our Millennium Development Goals,’ he said, ‘Now is the time to finish the job…
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In case you missed it: Julia Gillard waxes lyrical about power, legacy and the future of Labor. Former Prime Minister, Julia Gillard has broken her silence today, penning a column for The Guardian focusing on notions of power. Gillard reflected on the shortcomings of the new Abbott government as well as her own, being…
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Earlier in the year, I was drawn into reading a really great article on Lip’s website about the essential brainwashing of stereotypical gender roles in babies from the word go. It really got me interested in taking more notice of the point in daily life, and the cold, hard facts of just how true this…
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