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Why fictional women are stronger than real women

By ⋅ September 1, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

Truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction is more true than strange. Strangers are more fictional than truthful. In Hollywood and the media, fictional women may be stronger than real women. This week, we’ve discovered that Pixar will feature its very first female animated lead character. http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/politics/one-female-lead-does-not-a-zeitgeist-make–but-its-a-start-20110826-1jefv.html So, could this mean the animation industry’s portrayal of [...]

The mother of all workplace myths

By ⋅ January 25, 2008 ⋅ One comment

Do women know what they’re risking when they have children or are they blinded by the myth of equality? It wasn’t her imagination. They were looking at her differently. You’d think she had six heads or something. Siobhán had worked like a dog for the past 15 years. She had received top honours at university [...]

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