January 28, 2016
I hope I'm wrong. I really hope I'm wrong -- because my evidence is anecdotal. But it seems to me that despite all of the ...read more
Tagged sexism
January 13, 2016
Sixty percent of the women working in Silicon Valley experience unwanted sexual advances, according to a new survey released this week. About two-thirds of them ...read more
January 19, 2015
I did something brave the other day -- and stupid but also brave, but yes stupid. You see I recently got a pedometer and am ...read more
May 19, 2014
If you are on, um, any social network ever (but chiefly Facebook) you will no doubt have been subjected to the sharing of a particular ...read more
April 9, 2014
Sometimes the best way to make a point about sexism is also the simplest. Australian comedians the Bondi Hipsters parodied this month's British GQ by ...read more
November 20, 2013
There's something very sad about what has happened to the internet, and how we discuss it. Remember, not long ago, when this was a cornucopia ...read more
November 7, 2013
Cinemas in Sweden have instituted a classification system for films, based not on the violence or sexual content they contain, but on how sexist they ...read more
October 23, 2013
It is a truth algorithmically acknowledged that a man needs to ejaculate and a woman needs to be put in her place. Perturbed by the ...read more
October 21, 2013
In a "post-racial" era one would think that colourism -- discrimination based on one's skin tone -- is no longer an issue. You would think ...read more
October 21, 2013
Here's a simple and powerful campaign idea from UN Women using real suggested search terms from Google's autocomplete feature. Campaign creator Christopher Hunt, head of ...read more
August 8, 2013
Two decades ago most South African women had no rights. They worked in menial jobs and lived their lives in the private sphere. Apartheid had ...read more
August 2, 2013
This morning's announcement that a "freaked out" Simon Cowell has fathered a lovechild with a New York socialite called Lauren Silverman was of course illustrated ...read more
July 10, 2013
Sexist witterings by commentators and the media attention given to male tennis players' girlfriends shows feminism still has a long struggle ahead While Andy Murray ...read more
