Feminism
Light a Durrie for Equality, Girls
Forget the gender pay gap, the gender superannuation gap or the glass ceiling: there’s a real and urgent gender gap that demands redress. The gap in question strikes right to the heart of the wellbeing, indeed, the very lives of one half of humanity. The gender gap in question
UN’s Dirty Little Secret Vote
The idea that the best person to catch a thief is a thief has been explored in countless stories and films, from The Stainless Steel Rat to To Catch a Thief. It even has real-life counterparts: hackers have been recruited to participate in anti-hacking initiatives. Still, those are the exceptions.
Australia Desperately Needs Workforce Gender Quotas
It’s obvious that Australia needs to urgently adopt gender-based employment quotas in order to address the growing gender imbalance in our workforce. As the economy begins to struggle out of the self-inflicted disaster of the Wuhan plague, it’s clear that one half of the population is being left
The Latest Feminist Lie About Women’s Earnings
Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past month or so, you’ll have been deafened by the outraged screeching of women. Well, not all women: just the tiny coven of permanently-outraged frightbats. Despite being amongst the wealthiest, most privileged people in the land, these shrieking fishwives
More Standards Than Chins on the Left
Dorothy Parker famously said that “Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone”. By which she meant that, while physical beauty might be on the surface only, a person that is an ugly, unpleasant miserable human being is that way all the way through. As we’
Pink Imperialist Hunts for ‘Broody Lesbians’
We live, as Orwell might have said, in a time of universal deceit. We live surrounded by lies about everything from race to climate. In keeping with Goebbels’s dictum, the biggest lies are the most fervently believed by a great many people. One of the Big Lies of modern
3 Post-war Innovations That Liberated Women
Simon Sarevski fee.org Simon Sarevski is a research assistant at the Austrian Economics Center. He holds a bachelor’s degree in financial management from Ss. Cyril and Methodius and is involved with European Students for Liberty. In ancient Greece Plato could be found advocating women’s rights, arguing that
Quotas Only Float Rubbish to the Top
Like it or not, Margaret Thatcher must surely rank as one of the most successful women in modern political history. With 11 years in office, Thatcher was the longest-serving British prime minister of the 20th century. But beyond that, she fundamentally reshaped politics in the Western world for decades. When
In Canberra, No One Can Hear Aboriginal Women Scream
While the Canberra bubble has spent the last few weeks whipping itself into a self-righteous feminist fury about a bunch of gay men jacking off at work and a dodgy, decades-old rape allegation, a group of Aboriginal women travelled to Parliament to campaign for justice for a raped and murdered
Professor White Knight to the Rescue!
It’s been said that Tolkien’s ents are a gentle poke at the academic circles of Oxford and Cambridge with which he was so familiar: a cloistered bunch of fussy old bachelors endlessly ruminating. It might have been thought that that particular academic milieu was long past. But, reading
School Forces Boys to Apologise for Their Gender
Once upon a time, children were sent to school to learn to read, write and master maths. Not any more. While parents still view the purpose of schooling as basic education, teachers and academics think they know better. Nowadays, children spend more time at school learning about 57 imaginary genders
How Three Women Sought to Sway Americans Away from Socialism
Kerry McDonald fee.org Kerry McDonald is a Senior Education Fellow at FEE and author of Unschooled: Raising Curious, Well-Educated Children Outside the Conventional Classroom (Chicago Review Press, 2019). She is also an adjunct scholar at The Cato Institute and a regular Forbes contributor. Kerry has a B.A. in
Horrifying Sexism at the ABC!
My parents’ generation endured Depression, World War and the existential threat of communism. They never complained about it – or about much of anything. Today’s generation are the safest and richest in human history – and they complain about everything. I guess when you’ve never really endured real hardship, the
The Demeaning Narcissism of Phony Victimhood
Way back in the 90s, Katie Roiphe was rudely booted out of the feminist sisterhood for having the temerity to point out that Third Wave feminists had more in common with Victorian-era misogynists and that women were perfectly-capable grown adults. A quarter-century later, what has changed? Well, it’s got
Labor Witch-hunts Come Back on Them
The definition of insanity, it is said, is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. On that score, the Australian media can be forgiven their periodic pack-hunts because until now, depending on how Attorney-General Christian Porter’s defamation case against the ABC goes, they’ve not