International Women's Day  |  Panel discussion
Channel: ANU TV
Date: 2021-03-04

Inside and outside the tent: Feminist movements and the unfinished business of ending sex discrimination.

This International Women's Day, the Vice-Chancellor and the Gender Institute bring you a panel discussion moderated by Honorary Associate Professor Sally Moyle.

Sex Discrimination was first outlawed in an Australian jurisdiction over 40 years ago, and the federal Sex Discrimination Act is over three decades old. To mark International Women's Day, this year on the theme Women in Leadership: Achieving an equal future in a COVID-19 world, a panel of distinguished speakers representing three generations of feminist legal thought will explore how we have progressed towards gender equality over those decades. Have we made real progress towards equality, or merely knocked the harshest edges off the patriarchy? Were feminists right to engage with mainstream policy and law to achieve transformational change? Or did this limit the radical intent of feminism?