The Blaming of the Shrew: From the Frontlines of Contemporary Feminism




New Zealand Young Writers Festival show

Summary: 125 years after women won the vote in Aotearoa New Zealand, we’ve still got a long way to go. The programme you are about to hear, “The Blaming of the Shrew: From the Frontlines of Contemporary Feminism” was held as part of the 2018 New Zealand Young Writers Festival. On this panel, journalists Sasha Borissenko and Eleanor Ainge Roy, and Shirley Le from Sweatshop Sydney discuss pay equity, intersectional feminism, and the difficulties of balancing privacy and the public interest in the #MeToo era.