Anne Summers

Sexual harassment, domestic violence and date rape had not been named, although they certainly existed, when Damned Whores and God's Police was first published in 1975. That was before the Sex Discrimination Act of 1984 and before large numbers of women became visible in employment, in politics and elsewhere across society. It's hard to imagine an Australia where these abuses...

In 2012, Anne Summers gave two landmark speeches about women in Australia, attracting more than 120,000 visits to her website. Within weeks of their delivery, Prime Minister Julia Gillard's own speech about misogyny and sexism went viral and was celebrated around the world. The Misogyny Factor makes the case that Australia, the land of the fair go, still hasn't figured...