superfluous. Commenter Edith Location Melbourne Date and time May 01, 2012, 9:42AM Edith just out of interest-could you please outline for me (with specific examples) how being a women in Australia has been an impediment for you. In what ways have you been discriminated against? Most of the women I know are very happy and have never felt the slightest prejudice due to their gender, I am a teacher and yes-I have asked them. Commenter mark Location Date and time May 01, 2012, 10:24AM Oh, Mark. You've been asking the wrong women, obviously. Of course it all depends on what the women have tried to do with their lives. Since women are treated quite well in teaching (I was one), you won't find too much dissatisfaction there - women are accepted where there are shortages. And of course things have improved enormously since my day when a women couldn't own land, a business, get a bank loan, leave the country etc without their husband/father's signature. But there are many, many examples of terrible sexual harassment, bullying, you name it, in more male oriented workplaces. Open your eyes, do some reading - if you really want to get over your biases. Or you could spend a few days dressed up as a woman and see how differently you are treated! Commenter lola Location Date and time May 01, 2012, 11:09AM Mark, as a woman in Australia I have been grabbed at, screamed at from moving cars, held up against a wall