Guest Author • Sep 21, 2018 •
Dr Susan Rapley For all people who experience misogyny, and like Madame Curie, reject society’s notions of how we “ought” to be. Why Marie Curie? She’s old news. The one lady scientist everyone can name without hesitation. But, in considering the 125th anniversary of women’s suffrage in Aotearoa, she is an obvious contemporary. Read More
Guest Author • Sep 19, 2018 •
Dr Frederique Vanholsbeeck What’s more important the right to vote or paid parental leave? I would argue that we need both to achieve equality and that New Zealand is miles behind in term of “properly” paid parental leave. I came to New Zealand from Belgium in 2003 after choosing carefully a country where I would live and learn to speak … Read More
Guest Author • Sep 19, 2018 •
Dr Melanie Cheung I’ve been reflecting on the powerful articles celebrating women that I have read this week. Today is the 125th anniversary of women getting the vote in Aotearoa, and it feels like we have come a long way since then. Dr Melanie Cheung, supplied. Any women working in a male-dominated field also realise that we still have … Read More
Guest Author • Sep 18, 2018 •
Dr Siân Halcrow My work and success in science were, in large part, made possible through the ladders that people made and helped me to climb. Most important on this journey was my academic mentor, who was my PhD supervisor and postdoctoral mentor. My mentor built up a positive research group by helping her students and staff up the … Read More
Guest Author • Sep 17, 2018 •
Dr Lucy Stewart As writer Kameron Hurley once said regarding women in the military, “We have always fought” – women have always been involved in field research, including at sea. Aotearoa was named by Kuramārōtini, a woman on a long ocean voyage. Early research expeditions by Europeans relied heavily on indigenous women such as Sacagawea … Read More
Sarah-Jane O'Connor • Sep 17, 2018 •
Please don’t do the math, but I was eight in 1993 when New Zealand celebrated 100 years since Suffrage. My mum the history teacher made sure we understood when major world events were going on. I remember her pointing out the Rwandan refugee crisis on TV, telling us it would matter later that we remembered this. Read More
Ken Perrott • Jul 29, 2012 •
The opening ceremony for the London Olympics seemed to raise more political/ideological issues than usual. Which is a good thing. But this was one result. The anonymous placing of flowers at the grave of Emmeline Pankhurst in West Brompton cemetery … Continue reading → … Read More