Wednesday, 4 March 2015

They just don't get it, do they .... or do they?

My other country, Australia, managed, albeit briefly, to have a female Prime Minister. But the Liberal National Party in Queensland have apparently gone one further by holding their IWD lunch in a Men Only club.

Which reminds me of the time my lovely late post-feminist friend, Prof. Heather Hopfl, was invited by a publisher to receive an award for best paper in a gender journal at the Reform Club in London. On arrival, she was informed that she would have to wait, as it was necessary for her to be "signed in by a male member".  "Oh really" she responded, with a voice that you could pour on porridge,"can't I use a pen like everyone else?"


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