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i thought this TED talk by anita sarkeesian was worth sharing.  she speaks about the harassment resulting from her kickstarter project to ra...

Cross Posted from my usual home-base . The annual awards evening celebrating top NewZealand researchers was held at Auckland Museum on We...

This event sounds totally amaze, many thanks to Rebecca for telling me about it. Snippets from the  “ Diary of a Caregiver ” EEO Commis...

Although as AnneE points out some people seem to have neglected to remember what today means , I've been heartened by the tweets a...

What:   Afternoon tea organised by ALRANZ , with Dame Fiona Kidman talking about her latest book of short stories The Trouble With Fire Whe...

over the last ten years, and particularly when helen clark was prime minister, we regularly had the list of women in nz who holding the top-...

Found via a friend's Facebook feed, from XKCD

when immigrants and foreginers are so consistently treated as a drain on the countries resources, especially if they're the "wrong ...

One of the founders of ALRANZ , standing down as president after many years, and she's written a new book (Abortion: Then & Now).  I...

stratos has finally become available on freeview, and i'm loving it. not only the access to al-jazeera programmes, but the documentarie...

another layer of grief today, as an old friend of the family passed away today. alme jacub was one of the elders of our community, and came...

[ update : here is a link to the article on stuff about this wonderful young woman. and here is the unicef webpage, where you can make a...

i've been busy for the last little while organising the muslim women's conference in hamilton. it was a great conference, attended ...

it's late & i should be getting to bed, but i had to share this - which no doubt many of you will have read already. it's sady ...

i know we talk about freedom of speech a lot in this country, but we're lucky that we don't have very serious issues in this area. ...

I haven't watched Outrageous Fortune for three seasons. Last night I came in half way through the finale. And I cried. The episode was...

after an appalling panel on tuesday afternoon, when graham bell & jim mora ripped into heather henare of women's refuge, it seems th...

spotted in a small paragraph in a sidebar on page A9 of saturday's waikato times: Waikato University feminist geographers have been pres...

so i recently got the email below from the ministry of women's affairs. it seems that the last honours list was pretty obviously lackin...

In addition to the physical petition forms which you can download from the National Council of Women site , there is now an online petition ...