When three feminists gave their mic to a comedian,they betrayed their own audience
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When three feminists gave their mic to a comedian,they betrayed their own audience

Blame for the abysmal failure of Clementine Ford,Antoinette Lattouf and Yumi Stynes’ event shouldn’t be placed solely on the male comedian now being dragged online.

  • byKaty Hall

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Three feminists and a comedian hosted an event. It went horribly wrong

Three feminists and a comedian hosted an event. It went horribly wrong

The event featuring Clementine Ford,Antoinette Lattouf and Yumi Stynes was billed as a feminist forum about love and relationships. It quickly went off the rails.

  • byKarl Quinn
Germaine Greer tells Louis Theroux why women should marry truck drivers

Germaine Greer tells Louis Theroux why women should marry truck drivers

The 85-year-old Australian feminist gave an interview to the British-American broadcaster from her aged care home in Victoria.

  • byRob Harris
Corporate women have their special day,but what about the rest?

Corporate women have their special day,but what about the rest?

Let’s call it Feminist Freedom Day – a day when we can discuss what women really want.

  • byParnell Palme McGuinness
The ‘irresponsible’ Glebe squatters who started a women’s movement

The ‘irresponsible’ Glebe squatters who started a women’s movement

Celebrating 50 years since the Elsie women’s refuge,Anne Summers recalls the first months of the service which gave Sydney women leaving abusive partners a place to go.

  • byMary Ward
Newly separated at 31,I felt like a failure. Anne gave me a new perspective

Newly separated at 31,I felt like a failure. Anne gave me a new perspective

We met over the counter at Dymocks,and despite the 40-year difference in our ages,my friend Anne became my biggest cheerleader.

  • byEmma Darragh
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Women have imagined a different life for themselves. Eventually,so will men

Women have imagined a different life for themselves. Eventually,so will men

Women have discovered both their potential and their authentic selves over the past 65 years. I expect the next 65 will be about men doing the same.

  • byJane Caro
Wondering where the women’s March4Justice movement’s gone? Me too

Wondering where the women’s March4Justice movement’s gone? Me too

Just three years ago,thousands of women demanded justice outside Parliament House. Did that campaign end with Scott Morrison’s defeat? Looks like it.

  • byParnell Palme McGuinness
Feminist economist raised women’s status leading to equal pay demands

Feminist economist raised women’s status leading to equal pay demands

Academic and yoga-devotee Margaret Power helped lift the veil on obstacles to women’s employment opportunities in Australia,leading to better pay and work conditions.

  • byStuart Rosewarne
I got married and quit my job. Can I still call myself a feminist?

I got married and quit my job. Can I still call myself a feminist?

By offering me a financial buffer,my husband is the one supporting my ambitions,not the other way around. Could that be – dare I say it – a feminist act?

  • byBella Westaway
Teenage girls ‘detained and lashed’ by Taliban amid hijab crackdown

Teenage girls ‘detained and lashed’ by Taliban amid hijab crackdown

Girls as young as 16 have been seized from markets,private classrooms and the streets of Kabul as well as other provinces,accused of violating strict dress rules.

  • byRuchi Kumar