‘Feminism is not an extreme term,’ says Penny Wong

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Wong took direct aim at Senator Michaelia Cash, the minister assisting the prime minister Tony Abbott on women’s issues, and who recently rejected the feminist label because, while she believed in gender equality, she considered feminism to be “a set of ideologies from many decades ago”.

“Rejecting the term ‘feminist’ is a political decision,” Wong said.

“It diminishes one of the most important social movements of the modern era. It’s a manoeuvre many on the political right engage in to delegitimise the values of feminism, to undermine policies aimed at achieving gender equality and to turn back the gains of the past.

“Feminism is not an extreme term – it is a mainstream movement that has transformed modern Australia for the better.”