Life How the top grossing films are warping our views of women Plan International released research today that reveals top grossing films continue to portray women in often sexualised and sexist ways.
News & Views ‘Listen to her. Believe her’: Michelle Williams’ epic Emmy acceptance speech Michelle Williams won a 2019 Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress for her role in Fosse/Verdon. She delivered a passionate plea for equality.
News & Views Pain and Prejudice: Why women’s health problems have been belittled & ignored In her book Pain and Prejudice, Gabrielle Jackson explores how women’s pain is viewed and treated, not just by the medical profession, but by wider society.
News & Views Marco Pierre White says women are ‘too emotional’ to be chefs Celebrity chef Marco Pierre White seemingly isn’t happy that Gordon Ramsay routinely tops the culinary dousch list, so he’s decided to up the ante.
News & Views The ‘mad witches’ orchestrating the Alan Jones boycott Since last week 22 companies have pulled their advertising from The Alan Jones Breakfast Show on 2GB and there are 55,000 mad witches to thank for it.
News & Views Julie Bishop, Andrew Denton & the subject of sexism Channel 7 broadcast the final episode of Andrew Denton’s Interview for 2019 on Tuesday in which he sat down with the former foreign minister Julie Bishop.
News & Views 100 gamers competed in the Fortnite World Cup & none were women The winner of the Fortnite World Cup took home $US3million in prizemoney. No women were included in the 100 finalists who competed.
News & Views Vanity Fair’s takedown of Byron Bay’s ‘Instagram Influencer Mamas’ Carina Chocano’s Vanity Fair feature on Courtney Adamo, Amelia Fullarton & ‘Instagram Influencer Mamas’ in Byron Bay is both beautifully written & scathing.
News & Views ‘Don’t like my facial expressions? Look the other way’: Jane Caro 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.
News & Views Tales of a woman mocked & dismissed by male real estate agents On several occasions during the process of buying real estate Aislinn Martin was ignored, dismissed and even mocked by men.
News & Views The global report on fathers that ought to be mandatory reading The 2019 State of the World’s Fathers report, produced by Promundo, calls for nothing less than full equality between women & men, at work and at home.
News & Views ‘I understand Tanya Plibersek’s decision, I do. But I also mourn what could have been.’ Kristine Ziwica says that while she doesn’t think Tanya Plibersek owes it to women to lead the Labor party, she couldn’t help but mourn what might have been