Masterchef Australia’s New ‘Boys vs Girls’ Season is Cheap Sexism for Ratings

Masterchef Australia’s New ‘Boys vs Girls’ Season is Cheap Sexism for Ratings

Furthermore, Australia, for all of its merits as a developed country with a strong economy, is dominated by a sports-obsessed bloke-y culture. More than one in ten women say that they have been a direct victim of workplace discrimination or sexism. There still exists a pay gap. Violence against women by deified, spoiled sports stars is almost the norm. Tony Abbott, the Opposition Leader who may become our new Prime Minister, once said: “It would be folly to expect that women would ever approach equal representation in a large number of areas simply because their aptitudes, their abilities and interests are different for physiological reasons.”