The Hand Mirror

Or: Pregnant, Headless, Thin, White and Definitely Middle Class.  Or: (In the language of Stockphotoland) “Headless Person Holding On to E...

Poster for Ladies in the House, black text on grey background Many thanks to Coley for sending this through. What:   Ladies in the ...

One of the key arguments that are being thrown at me about abortion is that it "isn’t just about me". No, it isn’t. However I c...

this is a post of links to stuff by awesome women of colour. the first is a clip by rangimarie turuki rose peri, who speaks about being you...

Trigger Warning for this post for rape & violence. I found the three paragraphs below absolutely chilling when I read them last week. ...

thanx to stef for alerting us to the marie curie lecture series . from the blurb on their website: Female Chemists from New Zealand refle...

Or the Fillum Festival as Kim Hill would say. Docos on women's issues: Love, Lust and Lies Salam Rugby His and Hers Movies on women'...

Happy International Women's Day! Reminder links to events we've listed so far here and here . Posts I've found so far, feel fre...

Melissa at Shakesville is one of many US feminist bloggers writing about the fish hooks for women in the Really Big Deal Healthcare Reform g...

From Stuff today: It never pays to be smug about the status of women, and to imagine that everywhere in the world they enjoy, as we do here,...

sophie foster, the associate editor of the fiji times, gave a speech recently at the fiji women's rights movement's "emerging l...

i've just watched a replay of the parliamentary session recognising rt hon helen clark's appointment as head of the UNDP. it was an...

Here's a few links for you: The official International Women's Day 2009 site All about International Women's Day on Wikipedia A ...

i've been hearing some awful stories about mothers-in-law lately. mothers of sons, that would be. no doubt there are plenty of wonderful...

I spent the Christmas mornings of my childhood in Mass, somewhat resentfully, bursting to go back home and play with my new toys. At least ...

some good news today: asoka basnayake who produces the "women's voices" programme has won an award at the Annual Micies awards...

Phil Goff has just been named the successor to Helen Clark, but has also been touted as a kind of antidote to her. To the right of Labour, ...

the labour party women's policy is now up on their website (pdf file here ). a couple of the issues have already been dealt with by le...

i thought this part of hon margaret wilson's valedictory speech might be of interest, particularly as she has been one of the most effe...

after news of a female majority in the rwandan parliament, i thought it might be useful to look at another emerging woman leader. tzipi* l...