Women Who Win Quotes

“The research repeatedly shows that when women hold genuine authority, not tokenistic roles that don’t allow their solutions and strategies to be implemented, societies become significantly less inclined to throw themselves into violence, and far more capable of negotiating their way out of the messes they have already made.52”
― Antoinette Lattouf, Women Who Win: Celebrating courage, conviction and change

“Indigenous medicines, like language and ceremony, were suppressed under assimilation policies that sought to erase culture rather than understand or respect it.”
― Antoinette Lattouf, Women Who Win: Celebrating courage, conviction and change

“Take Dr Constance Stone. Barred from studying medicine in Australia on account of the grave offence of not being a man, she packed her bags in 1884, sailed to the United States, and graduated as a doctor. After working in London, she returned in 1890 as Australia’s first female medical practitioner, helped establish the Queen Victoria Hospital in Melbourne – inspired in part by the women-staffed New Hospital for Women and Children she practised at in London – and changed the landscape of care.”
― Antoinette Lattouf, Women Who Win: Celebrating courage, conviction and change

“So much so that even the New South Wales Ladies’ Amateur Swimming Association (NSWLASA), helmed by feminist icon Rose Scott, forbade women from competing in front of men. Scott and her cohort were worried about what might happen to the delicate male psyche should it be exposed to a woman in a wet bathing suit executing a powerful butterfly stroke.”
― Antoinette Lattouf, Women Who Win: Celebrating courage, conviction and change

“Alongside her close friend Wilhelmina ‘Mina’ Wylie – whose father conveniently owned Wylie’s Baths – Durack trained relentlessly, mastering a stroke that would later be called the ‘Australian Crawl’. Today we know it as freestyle, though ‘crawl’ remains a fitting descriptor for the pace at which women’s inclusion in sport progressed beneath the weight of the patriarchy.”
― Antoinette Lattouf, Women Who Win: Celebrating courage, conviction and change

“Women are suffering significantly more than men in the workplace in terms of their bodies, and this is due to things outside of their control, from endometriosis to menopause. Women carry the challenge of having a reproductive body, and all that entails, yet are still expected to compete equally in the labour market,’ she explains. ‘Australian labour law was written by men, for men, at a time when women were largely excluded from paid work,’ she continues. ‘Today women make up roughly half of the labour market, yet workplace laws still remain fundamentally shaped around the “ideal worker”, who is male.”
― Antoinette Lattouf, Women Who Win: Celebrating courage, conviction and change

“I was also acutely aware of the documented experiences of other women in public life who have turned to authorities for help. Most were underwhelmed by the response.33 Their experiences were often minimised, and many of my friends who had reported online threats and abuse were simply told to ‘take a break’ from social media, and that the hate being directed at them was likely just hot air.”
― Antoinette Lattouf, Women Who Win: Celebrating courage, conviction and change

“Personally I’d love to see her take a stab at the pyramids of pink cupcakes at corporate morning teas, where once or twice a year employers pretend to care about gender equality and inclusion for, conveniently, the same amount of time it takes to finish a cup of coffee.”
― Antoinette Lattouf, Women Who Win: Celebrating courage, conviction and change

“My rule of thumb? If a middle-aged white guy at the Australian is pearl-clutching over supposed racial division, you can safely assume the opposite is true – and backed by actual evidence. Make of that what you will.”
― Antoinette Lattouf, Women Who Win: Celebrating courage, conviction and change

“Through these savvy partnerships, Flos Greig skilfully overcame barriers and secured crucial male support for the Women’s Disabilities Removal Bill in 1903.17 Yes, you read that correctly: ‘Disabilities’. At the time, women were considered legally ‘disabled’ simply because of their sex.”
― Antoinette Lattouf, Women Who Win: Celebrating courage, conviction and change

“Robinson bore the title ‘Protector of Aborigines’ – a designation as preposterous as former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s tenure as Minister for Women.”
― Antoinette Lattouf, Women Who Win: Celebrating courage, conviction and change