By Rosemary McLeod Feminists are out in force this weekend in Wellington, and they’ll be crowing. The Janus Women’s Convention celebrates 30 years since the United Women’s Convention in the capital in 1975, a Great Leap Forward into success. … I don’t blame them if they’ve come to gloat. There’ve been victories un-dreamed-of 30 years […]

What Women Want If your target, like P&G’s, is largely female, allow us to bring to your attention the following insights, drawn from a major new study, Focusing On Women 2005, released by Statistics New Zealand yesterday. This new report uses information from the 2001 Census of Population and Dwellings as its baseline, and draws […]

The first national Women’s Convention in nearly thirty years is being held in Wellington over Queens Birthday weekend. And if the registration fee is anything to go by, you have to have the salary of a Theresa Gattung to count as a woman in New Zealand these days. The organisers are charging $337.50 to be […]

What happened to being a woman, biology and all? In ALEXIS STUART’S experience, it is women’s difference that has the potential power to civilise men. … I was the feminist poster child. How could I be anything else? I had been indoctrinated for years. I had been taught it all, from French existentialist Simone de […]

Parents who discipline their children are arrested and dragged before the court of our all to common criminal. We have even allowed fathers to be jailed for sending their children Xmas presents.

The Children’s Commissioner wants every responsible parents legal licence to discipline removed on the basis of the outcome of a court case.

It is the dark side of divorce. After the rows, the bitter custody battles, after constant attempts to take children out according to visitation entitlements have failed, the dust settles and the parent who misses out must start a new life alone.

Media Release: Green Party How many more children need to be bruised, beaten and suffer broken bones before the Government realises it is time to repeal the archaic section in the Crimes Act that allows it to happen, asks Green Party Children’s Issues Spokesperson, Sue Bradford. Last week in Timaru yet another parent escaped prosecution […]

Women fill the roles of Governor-General, Prime Minister, Chief Justice, Speaker and the heads of our biggest listed company and our second-biggest bank. Labour MP John Tamihere told Investigate magazine last month that the most powerful network in the ruling party was “the Labour Party wimmin’s division … it’s about an anti-men’s agenda”. Men, it […]

Press Release: Ministry Of Women’s Affairs Women’s safety in the home and their ability to participate as fully in the workforce as they choose are the priorities for the Ministry of Women’s Affairs during the next three years. … The Ministry’s Statement of Intent 2005-2008 released today says that the Ministry is pursuing a range […]

Witnessing a loved one give birth, especially for the first time, is both an anxiety provoking and exhilarating experience. Yet for many fathers childbirth was not the joyous experience they hoped for. Having a baby is an extraordinary event in a man’s life, but many men do not receive the support they need. Some suffer […]

The New Zealand Herald PO Box 32 Auckland New Zealand The Lace Curtain During the cold war the Soviet Union embraced the ideology of communism and kept control by excluding contrary view points, it became known as the “Iron Curtain.” Feminism has imposed its ideology on all areas of our society to the exclusion of […]

I knew Garth George was in trouble when he started by saying he had sympathy for another man. Is his oestrogen level to high or was he responding to Benson-Popes emasculated behaviour.

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Police are warning all men who frequent clubs, parties local pubs and singles organisations particularly on the internet to be alert and stay cautious when offered a drink from any woman. Many females use a date rape drug on the market called “Beer”. The drug is found in liquid form and available almost everywhere. It […]

Extract from a book review of ‘Freakonomics’, by Levitt & Dubner. One of his best-known, and in some quarters notorious, findings concerns America’s falling crime-rate during the 1990s. Towards the end of that decade, confounding the expectations of most analysts, the teenage murder rate fell by more than 50% in the space of five years; […]

It has often been said to me, “Men will not save themselves from feminism -they will need to be rescued by women”.

Parents separated from their children urged to withdraw their party vote from Labour and National.

A New Zealand Herald columnist Sandra Paterson may last week have been the messenger with bad news the Labour-led Government does not want at the forefront of news coverage in coming weeks. It was nothing as riveting as a Ministerial resignation in the face of verbal fire from the opposition; nor an administrative scandal of […]

Joe McCarthy Lives — Right Here in New Zealand Last week Ian Wishart, Tamihere’s interviewer, and Sandra Paterson, who gets published in the New Zealand Herald, both wrote articles about how a woman called Kay Goodger and a pamphlet published in 1974, was, they claimed, linked to women in the Labour government. “In short,” wrote […]

There is a little old lady in Auckland with whom Helen Clark would not be very pleased. If she knew who she was, that is. Back in the 1970s, when the little old lady was much younger, she used to go to feminist meetings. Not because she was a feminist, but because she and her […]

How can we help children and young people increase their participation in society so they and everyone else might benefit from their input into decision-making processes? This is one of the key issues to be discussed at a major conference running from July 7 to 9 at the University of Otago. Children and Young People […]

On April 22, 2005, Harvard University’s Mind/Brain/Behavior Initiative (MBB) held a defining debate on the public discussion that began on January 16th with the public comments by Lawrence Summers, president of Harvard, on sex differences between men and women and how they may relate to the careers of women in science. The Science of Gender […]

TV One News Summit tackles men’s issues (includes streaming video). The state of “New Zealand manhood” was the topic of the first ever Men’s Issues Summit at Auckland on Friday. Bleak predictions of the future of the New Zealand male were being made at the summit, which was held at the Waitakere City Council Chambers. […]

Firstly, welcome to any new readers who heard about MENZ Issues for the first time at the Summit yesterday. I look forward to any contributions you might be inspired to make. I have to confess that my note-keeping tailed off somewhat after the first few sessions, however if all goes according to plan there will […]