Jane Caro

’40 years ago, as the result of contraception failure, I had an abortion. I have never felt ashamed about the choice I made.’

Abused by a man in a local restaurant who mimicked her facial expressions, led Jane Caro to reflect on how much men continue to police women’s bodies.

I am on the record as a hater of Mother’s Day. Not a hater of mothers themselves, but of the absurdity of their so-called special day, writes Jane Caro.

I cannot endlessly have coffee with people I hardly know, indiscriminately read manuscripts, research proposals or judge competitions, Jane Caro writes.

It is Mother’s Day where the full force of society’s hypocrisy and sentimentality lets rip, Jane Caro writes. Women need more love and less sentimentality.

I believe that feminism is a broad church (I have occasionally joked it is a broad’s church) and that almost any political, religious or world view is compatible with feminism, except a belief in restricting reproductive rights for women.

I suspect it may be dawning on a few white men as I write this that giving women the vote was a seriously bad idea.

Like most Australians, I grew up steeped in American culture.

Apparently there are bloggers and then there are “mummy bloggers”.

It didn’t begin well.

Human beings are complex creatures.

There is a spurious idea that’s held sway in all sorts of arenas for a very long time that when you are gender neutral it’s fair for everyone.