News & Views Men can do emotional labour. Really. My husband is proof of male capability in the domestic sphere, including in the realm of emotional labour. It can be done.
News & Views What gets measured does (not necessarily) get managed Many in gender equality circles are fond of the maxim that “what gets measured gets managed” but Kristine Ziwica is she’s having a crisis of faith.
podcasts Podcast: Jane Caro on ‘accidental feminists’ & when is the ‘right time’ to be a woman in the workplace? “You get what you resist,” says Jane Caro. And the author and media commentator has certainly been a vocal advocate against the status quo.
News & Views When men being good is a bar too high, the problem is clear The need for the Gillette ad promoting positive masculinity has been reinforced powerfully by the backlash it has sparked.
Screen Wonder Woman takes out the gong for kids’ favourite superhero Move over Batman, Captain America and the Incredible Hulk, kids have a new favoured superhero…And she has ovaries!
News & Views Historic photoshoot of NZ’s 3 female Prime Ministers ‘normalises’ women in leadership To celebrate 125 years since women won the right to vote the NZ Herald released historic photoshoot to celebrate women in leadership.
Ed's Blog When feminists don’t want to ‘work anymore’? The case for dads doing more is clear. Until we seriously consider how fathers can do more at home, mothers will continue to struggle to combine work and family. And unsurprisingly, many of them, feminists included, will decide they can’t. It’s time for dads to do more.
World Ireland’s historic referendum & ‘a quiet revolution’ that cannot be underestimated In a referendum held on Friday 66.4% of Irish voters opted to repeal the 8th Amendment which effectively bans abortion in almost every instance. It is a historic result of a ‘quiet revolution’ 30 years in the making.
Soapbox ‘I appreciated feminism but I didn’t think I needed it. Until now.’ “I have spent a large portion of my life thinking that feminism was something that happened in the 1960s and 1970s. I appreciated feminism, but I wasn’t in need of feminism. I have peddled this rather condescending ambivalence most of my adult life.”
News & Views The truth about what happened at an exclusive men-only charity dinner The Presidents Club Charity Dinner is ostensibly a worthy annual event but an expose in the Financial Times by Madison Marriage shows its sleazy core.
Ed's Blog Too late to complain? Stop whingeing? No thanks, Germaine. Germaine Greer has admonished women for whingeing about sexual assault after the fact saying it’s too late to complain. #MeToo
News & Views The fact the Aziz Ansari situation is complicated is exactly the point. A 3000 word essay written by Grace* published on Babe.net about her evening with Aziz Ansari has sparked a thousand comment pieces.
