A simple example, until 1966, the male idea that women belonged in the domestic world, meant that women were banned from public service after marriage. Those structures still exist today. It's called male privilege. You got it, I got it. It no longer appears to prohibit women from working after marriage, but it still exists. It appears that • Gender pay gap – where a woman doing the same job as a man is paid 17% less • High power positions appear to be dominated by men – Tony Abbott's cabinet had one woman in every 19 people; which we pleasantly learned doubled in the following year to a total of two women.• But it also sounds like what we're talking about today: violence against women. Because if it is true that men also suffer violence from women, violence against women from men is enormously disproportionate: it is much higher and much more widespread. And this is problematic. Not just because it is currently disadvantageous to women, but because these types of systems actually tend to sustain themselves
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