The #ItsOver (#厂别础肠补产贸) movement has erupted in Spain to demand the resignation of national football chief Luis Rubiales, over his sexist behaviour following the Spanish women's team's World Cup victory, reports Dick Nichols.
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The brilliance of Barbie is its confrontation of patriarchy and power, writes Christine Hepsie.
More than 100 people gathered聽to demand an end to sexism and for justice for survivors, reports Jim McIlroy.
Systemic sexism and harassment at work is made easier because of the material inequalities women face, including the gender pay gap, write聽Chloe de Silva and Mary Merkenich.
Reporting a male Coalition staffer's bad behaviour as 鈥渓ewd鈥 downplays the systematic nature of sexism and misogyny, argues Alison Pennington.
Mary Merkenich writes that the long-standing sexist practice of covering up bad behaviour enables it to continue.
Markela Panegyres uncovers some of the history of the Hyde Park Barracks, a former convict dormitory and Female Immigration Depot.
The most important finding of the long Mueller investigation into United States President Donald Trump 鈥 that there was no collusion with the Russians to fix the 2016 US election so that Trump would win 鈥 came as a shock to most liberals, progressives and even many socialists.
Reclaim the Night marches were held around Australia to demand an end to violence against women.
The five-year Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, which presented its findings last year, opened up a greater understanding of the problems in religious and community institutions鈥 dealings with children.
For millennia, women have had to contend with the ideology that because of their biology, women鈥檚 second class status is part of some 鈥渘atural order鈥. This has been perpetuated by the state, the church, the family, and reflected in laws and through education.
But this is bullshit. Throughout many millennia of human history, women occupied a status at least equal to men鈥檚. The problem is that you won鈥檛 hear about this reality in school, you won鈥檛 see it reflected in the media or in film.
In a continuation of the rancid rape culture spewing from Australian university and high school campuses, a national grouping of young men identified with the Facebook page 鈥淵eah the Boys鈥, which boasts half a million likes, is spitting chunks onto social media.
The page is receiving attention now because members of the group scheduled a 鈥渕ale-only鈥 meet-up at Sydney's Coogee Beach. While the anonymous 鈥榊eah the Boys鈥 page admins sought to distance themselves from the event, within hours thousands of the page鈥檚 followers had jumped behind it.
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