It’s International Women’s Day. A day to celebrate women’s achievements. A day which male politicians will inevitably make about themselves.
This year’s theme is “Choose to Challenge”: choose to challenge gender bias, gender inequality and men saying dumb things. Australian women have done spectacularly well at calling out the crap in recent months.
Here at
Crikey, women have stood up to the leaders of our country, demanding a better response to sexual violence — or in the case of Madonna King, rewriting what the response should have been. Tory Shepard has highlighted how our prime minister is paying us nothing but lip service, while Karen O’Connell questioned whether we’re in a new era of dealing with sexual harassment.