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The AI overlords are starting to make things really uncomfortable.
On Wednesday this week, I sat in the audience at The Press Club watching my close friend and former colleague Georgie Dent deliver the mother (and father) of all speeches. Georgie documented the pressures on Australian parents including the systems designed for a bygone era. She also identified that for single and solo parents, the impacts are more acute.
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It’s crucial people have a more neutral, anatomically correct word – not a word that links to shame, whether consciously or sub-consciously. |
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Shari Klein
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On why she’s pushed to change the Dutch word for Labia, which traditionally translated to “shame lips”.
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AI agent hacking Medicare is just the tip of the iceberg of risks for women
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If this were a more traditional attack on our data, we'd be searching for the cyberterrorists. But a rogue AI agent? That's a conversation with the CEO!
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Workers in inclusive teams are significantly less likely to experience sexual harassment. That matters |
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Catherine Fitzpatrick remembers the first time she was sexually harassed at work—and asks a harder question: after decades of compliance measures, what actually stops harassment from happening? Read more +
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‘People don’t see what happens when I arrive home’: The hidden reality of living with IBD
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Nearly 180,000 Australians are living with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), yet much of what conditions like Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis demand happens completely out of sight. Read more+
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Dutch dictionary adds new term for labia after campaign to replace ‘shame lips’
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A leading Dutch dictionary has introduced a new word for labia, adding “vulvalippen” as an alternative to “schaamlippen” after a successful campaign to reduce shame around women’s bodies.’. Read more +
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Men threaten ‘annihilation’ while women share ideas.
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The state of leadership this week reminds us of the strong women in politics across the world. Read more +
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The number of complaints made under the Sex Discrimination Act in the last financial year. That’s a 21 per cent increase on the previous year and 51 per cent over five years.
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Dutch dictionary adds new term for labia after campaign to replace ‘shame lips’.
A leading Dutch dictionary has introduced a new word for labia, adding “vulvalippen” as an alternative to “schaamlippen” in a bid to reduce shame around women’s bodies. The original term literally translated to “shame lips”
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