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BRITAIN’S WOMEN AND WORK COMMISSIONPosted by Anne Summers on 07 July 2004
The British Prime Minister Tony Blair and his Minister for Trade and Industry Patricia Hewitt have announced the establishment of a Women and Work Commission to report in twelve months on what the government can do to reduce the gender pay gap, currently at 40 per cent in the UK (it’s 35 per cent in Australia for all average earnings) … Read More
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SEXUAL VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN RISES AGAINPosted by Anne Summers on 07 July 2004
In 2003 more than 18,000 women reported sexual assaults to police throughout Australia. This is a 10 per cent increase over the previous year. This, sadly, is a huge increase over the 13,500 women who reported such assaults to police in 2001. As I report in The End of Equality (p. 101) this figure represented a 9 per cent rise … Read More
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READ ALL ABOUT IT!Posted by Anne Summers on 07 July 2004
Puff headlines on the front page of the Australian on July 6, 2004: “Greatest Player in the World” and “Boris Becker on the Best Legs in the Business”. Each headline was accompanied by a photo of the winners of the Wimbledon championships this year. Guess which headline went with Roger Federer and which with Maria Sharapova!
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WOMEN’S ISSUES RATE HIGHLY IN NEWSPOLLPosted by Anne Summers on 07 July 2004
The last detailed newspoll, published in the Australian on 23 June, 2004 showed an interesting rise in the rating of women’s issues by voters. The poll indicated that in June 2004, 46 per cent of voters (and 55 per cent of women voters) rated “women’s issues” as being very important. This was a significant increase on the 38 per cent … Read More
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HOWARD PUTS HIS FACE TO VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN CAMPAIGNPosted by Anne Summers on 05 May 2004
You will recall the “No Respect No Relationship” television advertising campaign prepared by the Office of the Status of Women and due to screen prior to Christmas last year. As reported several times in the past on this page, the government canned the series because, the Prime Minister asserted at the time, it referred viewers to a website and not, … Read More
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CHILDCARE COSTS AND INFLATIONPosted by Anne Summers on 05 May 2004
Australia’s inflation rate for the March quarter was just 2 per cent, but not all areas of spending benefited from this. According to a report in the Australian Financial Review (29 April, 2004) childcare costs rose by 12.7 per cent. The price of flash digital televisions, on the other hand, fell by 21 per cent. Comment: No wonder women are … Read More
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NO RAPE CHARGES AGAINST CANTERBURY BULLDOGSPosted by Anne Summers on 05 May 2004
After a two month investigation NSW police have said there is insufficient evidence to press charges against the six Sydney footballers who were alleged to have raped a young woman in Coffs Harbour during a pre-season break. The police were advised by the NSW Director of Public Prosecutions that the case was unlikely to succeed in court. At a press … Read More
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EPIDEMIC OF VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN IN WESTERN AUSTRALIAPosted by Anne Summers on 05 May 2004
Urgent talks were convened in Parliament House, Perth last week after it was revealed that six women and a baby had been killed in the past four months in domestic violence episodes. The state’s 36 women’s refuges also reported an upsurge of women seeking emergency accommodation in the months since December 2003. All refuges were full to over-flowing and having … Read More
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WOMEN GET THE CHOP IN NSWPosted by Anne Summers on 04 April 2004
See Sarah Maddison’s excellent article in the Sydney Morning Herald yesterday and Joan Bielski’s reply today.
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YOUNG, FEMALE AND MAYORALPosted by Anne Summers on 04 April 2004
Comment: It’s no longer rare for women to be elected Mayors but the recent elevation of three Sydney women looks like a first because each is thirtysomething – a welcome change from the old image of the big-bellied, sixtysomething guys who used to have a lock on local government’s highest office. According to the Sunday Telegraph of 18 April, 2004, … Read More