A different beat today. Grace went on a date with an anti-feminist young man. Their conversation inspired this episode. Warning: we discuss sexual violence, physical violence and suicide. Help is available at 1800RESPECT.
Below are this episode’s references:
15:17 - ‘UN Women Reveals Concerning Regression in Attitudes Towards Gender Roles During Pandemic in New Study’
19:10 - Neolithic revolution ‘How did the patriarchy start – and will evolution get rid of it?’ By Ruth Mace
23:34 - South Australia enacted marital rape legislation in 1976. Featherstone, Lisa (2017). ‘That's what being a woman is for’: opposition to marital rape law reform in late twentieth century Australia. Gender and History 29 (1) 87-103.
24:03 - On average, one woman per week is murdered by her current or former partner. “In the 10 years from mid-2002 to mid-2012, 488 women in Australia were killed by their intimate partner (Cussen & Bryant, 2015). A further study for the period mid-2012 to mid-2014 confirmed this (Bryant & Bricknell, 2017).”
Australia’s National Research Organisation for Women’s Safety (ANROWS). 2018. Violence against women: Accurate use of key statistics (ANROWS Insights 05/2018). Sydney, NSW: ANROWS.
24:22 - “90% of women have experienced sexual harm”. This comes from a study I read of female college students’ experiences of gendered microaggressions : “Gender microaggressions were ubiquitous, with nearly every participant (99.6%) experiencing at least one form of gender microaggressions.” (Gartner, 2019)
32:49 - The 13% figure I mention is actually national, not global. In Australia as of November 2022 the private sector gender pay gap is 16.1% and the public sector gender pay gap is 11.2%
Globally, the gender wage gap is about 20% (International Labour Organisation Global Wage Report 2018/19)
32:54 - The gender pay gap
36:27 - ‘When people hear “doctor,” most still picture a man
1:01:38 - Men are more likely to commit violent crimes. Why is this so and how do we change it?
1:06:20 Intersectional feminism
1:08:42 - bell hooks ‘All about love’ p.89 “Testimony in new age writing affirms the way in which embracing a love ethic transforms life for the good.
Yet a lot of this information only reaches those of us who have class privilege. And often, individuals whose lives are rich in spiritual and material well-being, who have diverse friends from all walks of life who nurture their personal integrity, tell the rest of the world these things are impossible to come by. I am talking here about the many prophets of doom who tell us that racism will never end, sexism is here to stay, the rich will never share their resources.
We would all be surprised if we could enter their lives for a day. Much of what they are telling us cannot be had, they have. But in keeping with a capitalist-based notion of well-being, they really believe there is not enough to go around, that the good life can be had only by a few.
Talking to a university audience recently I expressed my faith in the power of white people to speak out against racism, challenging and changing prejudice - emphatically stating that I definitely believe we can all change our minds and our actions. I stressed that this faith was not rooted in a utopian longing but, rather, that I believed this because of our nation's history of the many individuals who have offered their lives in the service of justice and freedom.”
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