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PAY EQUITY: NOT SPEAKING UP FOR WOMEN

The overturning of the pay equity legislation by the Government represents a direct attack on the economic interests of working-class women....

We live in strange times when you have to fight for the right to describe a woman as pregnant. Some people will try to shut you down - as To...

Last week New Zealand's female parliamentary politicians gathered together to celebrate that presently female MPs outnumber their male c...

Don't get confused - class struggle is something that has always been championed by people of colour. Egypt Otis is an organise...

Today is International Women's Day. The IWD was originally a holiday established by the socialist Second International in 1911. T...

The Minister for Women takes to Twitter to claim that she doesn't support the American military-industrial complex. But she fails t...

Julie Anne Genter will no doubt be breaking out the champagne to celebrate that, as of January 1, women are in charge of America's ...

Julie Anne Genter : Promoting a neoliberal brand of feminism. Women apparently now fill more than half the top jobs in the state sector...

Helen Clark has talked warmly of Hillary Clinton. Former Prime Minister Helen Clark insists that Jacinda Ardern has helped crack 't...

Nancy Fraser says that getting more women in corporate boardrooms is the feminism of the one percent and that its time for a feminis...

Laurie Penny's new book is Bitch Doctrine . She says that we that we must ".. have the courage to make impossible demands - to fac...

Jackie Blue, the Equal Opportunities Commissioner, thinks that feminism is all about more women rising to the commanding heights of capital...