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So there's new local research out today that the gender pay gap is a) real and b) primarily due to conscious and unconscious bias. Fir...

I've very carefully been avoiding reading any detail about the pro-rape Return of Kings hate group.  I'm sure there are lots of othe...

Recently I've been spending a lot of time on the 9th floor of Auckland City Hospital - Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) is currently ...

Sometimes being a woman in a male dominated field feels a bit like trying to teach from water-skis. No, water-skis are not the best platfo...

When the great Audre Lorde said there is no such thing as a single issue, because we don't lead single issue lives, she didn't have...

A while back I shared the result of Women, Action and Media, the Everyday Sexism Project and author Soraya Chemaly's activist coalition...

I've been away at a feminist retreat for the weekend, recharging my energy for gender equity fights with some feminist sheroes.  We don...

My parents conceived me in the USA, but my mother travelled half a continent, alone, to give birth in Canada.  The US were invading Vietnam ...

Things that have riled me today: 1.  Mis-reporting of Julia Gillard's speech calling out Tony Abbott's misogyny - The speech did ...

seeing as i have been going through some heavy stuff lately, i thought it was time for a lighter pop culture post.  pretty out-of-date, i kn...

Well knock me down with a feather but Stuff have produced an irresponsible, unbalanced article about women and the justice system.  In a pr...

A thought-provoking guest post by Sophie B. Today someone on the internet asked me about 'benevolent sexism', and I was pleased ...

This week I went to see a film, Cafe de Flore. It had had good reviews (and was, I noticed, the staff pick at the Deluxe). The photography a...

Inspired by a Facebook discussion. Is calling women "girls" demeaning? Is calling men "boys" demeaning? Is it more...

So Murray McCully is overseeing a halving of women employed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade in frontline diplomatic roles. ...

Occupational hazard of wanting to end rape culture: you spend lots of time designing training and education packages for people around the ...

Media release from Auckland Feminist Action, up on Scoop earlier today . Campaign launched against Tui beer ads Auckland group Feminist Ac...

Broadly speaking, feminists who see pornography as a problem tend to come from sexual and domestic violence activist backgrounds. They poi...

Good friends of mine - I'll call them Hazel* and Catherine - are buying a house together. They're both women in their twenties; this...

Today I'll just be the grumpy feminist, sitting over here in the corner complaining about charity at Christmastime . How many times hav...