Let's Talk Sex and Gender

Does the world need a female Santa? Mall setup of Santa Claus and Mrs Claus. I t's officially the festive season and every shopping mall you go to is decorated from top to bottom, in blinking lights, tinsel, ornaments and a big chair for a holly jolly bearded man to sit in. However over the past couple of days, people around the world have complained that there should be a female Kris Kringle, or at least a gender neutral one. In Newton Aycliffe, England, two women have volunteered to fill in the position of Father Christmas during a festive tour which is held on Christmas Eve and this has caused quite a row among the Brits. One of the women who volunteered was actually chosen thinking that it would be no big deal but in  Newton Aycliffe it appears to be somewhat of a big deal, so much so, that whether there should be a female Father Christmas was put to a vote. The Committee voted on allowing the woman to take part in the festivities as Santa Clause, however a member o

Want more women in politics? Call them "whores" Rosianne Cutajar T he Youngest Female Maltese MP, Rosianne Cutajar was publicly called a "whore in heat", back in November. She was insulted on Facebook by retired auditor Godfrey Leone Ganado. Among the comments on the page there were many who agreed with the auditor as well as others calling her a "playgirl" and a "flirt in parliament". Comments posted on Facebook against Cutajar At present Rosianne Cutajar, 28, is the youngest MP; a member of the council of Europe; chairperson for eduction at NL (Nisa Laburisti); chairperson of the Family Affairs Committee and; head of Delegation OSCE PA. Additionally she is the former, first female mayor of Hal Qormi and former teacher. Cutajar mentioned in an interview with Lovin Malta , that these insults come from the legacy of Daphne Caruana Galizia and have been "personified" by Leone Ganado. Caruana Galizia has many me

More Women in Employment & Pay Gap Widens R ephrasing Jane Austen's first sentence in Pride and Prejudice, it is universally acknowledged that men are paid more than women. The gender pay gap, is the difference between the average gross hourly earnings of men and women, including bonuses and overtime as well as other perks, all expressed as a percentage of the average gross of the yearly earnings of men. On the 19th of November the Times of Malta published an article stating that there are more women than ever before in full-time employment, filling job positions which used to be filled by men but somehow, from 19th November till the end of 2018, Maltese women will be working for free marking the pay gap that still exists between men and women. Therefore, for the most part women will be doing the same jobs as men but at no cost for a little less than a month and a half. A number of people close their eyes to this issue and wish to believe that the existenc

Let's Talk About Sex & Gender Representations of Sex and Gender : Male, Female & LGTIQ logo and figures S ex and gender are referenced constantly in the media, from crime, to politics. Men and women are exploited or discriminated against, similarly as are homosexual people and men and women of colour and so on. Topics relating to advertisements, films, television series, Youtubers, books, magazines and so on, are published almost daily and globally on news networks.  In 1972 the New York Post published an article on how women are constantly stereotyped in all forms of media, especially advertisements and today that same article, written by Judith Adler Hannesse and Joan Nichols, is still used as reference in schools and classes on gender studies and one might think that so much has changed since 1972, so why is this article still making rounds today? As much as we would like to believe that men and women are represented equally in the media, women