Julia Gillard's misogyny speech

You may have heard about the furore over Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard's robust response to a statement made by Leader of the Opposition Tony Abbott on sexism and misogyny. Abbott was accused of hypocrisy over the scandal that led to the forced resignation of Speaker of the House Peter Slipper, who had been sending lurid text messages to a colleague. The video had 2 million hits on YouTube, but was removed for copyrigth reasons at the request of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. The full 15 minute speech is available however at the Sydney Morning Herald site:

http://media.smh.com.au/news/national-times/julia-gillards-misogyny--speech-in-full-3701787.html

and if you can't spare 15 minutes, a clip is available from the BBC:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-19896465

On a similar theme, Sky TV is no stranger to sexism after the scandal that led to the sacking of Sky Sports pundit Andy Gray and the resignation of co-presenter Richard Keys in 2011 -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvVXOc0zyOY

Keys and Gray are now Radio Presenters, but sadly don't appear to be much reconstructed

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/2012/mar/14/richard-keys-andy-gray-history

So it's perhapsnot surprising to find that an Australian Sky presenter of 25 years' experience, Tracey Spicer, finally exploded with a public letter to a fictional "Mr Misogynist" railing at the sexism she had experienced in her career (just before Gillard's speech, in fact) that also went viral. You can read it and hear Spicer interviewed here:

http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/society-and-culture/and-heres-the-news-my-bums-got-nothing-to-do-with-the-story-20121025-28837.html