One reason is that like rape, domestic violence is a gendered crime, now so burdened with gender politics that makes it hard to talk about it with any nuance.
Referring to the accusations that she had "played the gender card" by calling out sexism, she said her position as the first female incumbent "does not explain everything about my prime ministership and does not explain nothing about my prime ministership".
Would a Women's Equality Party – campaigning on a single issue, gender equality – bloom, as they hope, in the way the Greens have from their one issue to all issues?
It's counterproductive for Wong to insist that it isn't enough for conservative women to merely support the principles of gender equality.
The catchment of indiscretion that is Twitter also exposes just how frequently gender warriors belittle other women.
There is interesting follow-up work to be done here on teachers', parents' and peers' responses to poorer children achieving grades above expectations, and indeed how this plays out across gender, ethnicity and for pupils with additional needs.
Related: Australia through the eyes of Wayne Quilliam — in pictures But after meeting so many strong women who have experienced discrimination based on gender as well as race, has the photographer learned much?
Kenny is being interviewed by Aboriginal photographer Wayne Quilliam, as part of a photographic exhibition soon to open at the United Nations in Geneva, exploring the race and gender discrimination experienced by Australian Indigenous women.
Like Alexander, celebrity stylist Gray thinks any backlash against men's short-shorts is really about gender and even anxiety around the accuser's sexuality.
It excludes anyone who could lend a modicum of diversity to these debates; who might challenge the status quo on the environment, on devolution, on constitutional change, on free-market economics, on gender politics.
As the Standard points out, the new YouGov also shows "a clear gender gap for Labour" of six points and almost the exact reverse for the Conservatives - a seven point gap favouring men.
