DON’T BE TOO POLITE GIRLS! UQ Business School Downtown Level 19, Central Plaza One, 345 Queen Street, Brisbane 22nd October 2010 12.00 © dale spender More than thirty years ago when I was living in London, there was a big move among some women to get more women on boards. The Fawcett Society, the oldest [...]
I’m old enough to have lived at time when there was no sexism. Of course it wasn’t that all was well between the sexes. Quite the opposite. You couldn’t get through a day without women becoming agitated about the way they were treated inside, or outside the home. They just didn’t have a word that [...]
I’ve been a feminist as long as I can remember and it used to upset me at meetings that a woman could make a suggestion – and the discussion proceeded as if she hadnt said a word. No one would acknowledge her contribution. And then about three minutes later a man could say the same [...]
There are 220 words for prostitute in the English language. It seems a lot and none of them is ‘nice’. But that’s not all that is surprising. What’s even more unusual is that there aren’t any specific names for the many men who pay for these sexual services. There are a few slang words that [...]
DOWNLOAD PDF: GIRLS AND IT by dale spender The attitude of girls to IT is summed up in an article in Science Direct: ‘“Because it’s boring, irrelevant, and I don’t like computers”; Why high school girls avoid professionally oriented ITC subjects’. [1] The findings of this extensive research (numerous projects, over the last few years) [...]
Serious fun and games and the need for a working party for girl’s games One of the most successful education initiatives at Djarragun College has been the introduction of computer/video games. This has been made possible since Cisco ‘wired’ the school. Despite the popular – and largely negative – image of video games as models [...]
