The Hand Mirror

Last night I was excited to go and see Helen Clark speak at the University of Auckland on the Role of the Rule of Law and Access to Justic...

Thanks to Rebecca Matthews for this guest post putting the case for Grant Robertson.  Rebecca is the convenor of Unions Wellington and, amo...

it's time to select a labour party leader once again.  a not entirely unpredictable happenstance, given that the person chosen by caucus...

so, where to start on this susan devoy thing? i guess the place to start is that this a difficult thing for me to talk about.  because i...

i was directed to this article at slate by someone on twitter, who was lauding it as a good defence of successful women.  i was pretty hope...

as i wrote on my own blog yesterday, i spent the late afternoon/evening watching the US election results come in with a group of friends, al...

In 2010 I decided that I should get involved in the National Council of Women.  To me it was a somewhat shadowy organisation, with a mandate...

a must-read piece , via blue milk, on the value of work: When performed by married women in their own homes, domestic labor is work—diffi...

In Councillese the term "officer" actually means "a staff member of the Council".  We democratically elected people (g...

so the big thing for labour party members over the next couple of weeks is the caucus leadership vote. it's certainly been getting a lo...

Trigger warnings for rape, sexual abuse, violence, exploitation of power: The other day Stef and I were having a chat about the Omar Hame...

a couple of links on women's participation in politics and business. first this call for more women to have strong political roles: Mo...

I'm super happy to be able to kill two birds with one stone and write a post that serves as not only a suffrage day post but also part o...

i know i'm a bit late for this post, but never mind. i have to say i'm very glad to see that alisdair thompson is no longer in a po...

today, the human rights commission has published it's census of women's participation (pdf). since i'm still pretty exhausted f...

woohoo!! congratulations to julia gillard, not only australia's first woman prime minister, but now australia's first elected woman...

and following on from deborah's last post, i just found this in my inbox: A Canadian author will become the first Muslim-born woman to ...

via a friend on facebook, this piece from holly robinson at the huffington post asking whether women can really have it all: Fast forward 1...

while julie has a bit of much deserved down time, i thought i'd do a quick post on women's representation on boards. nowhere near a...

I don't like bullies. I don't like adults who threaten and yell and generally throw their toys to try and get their own way, who be...