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Sex, Semenya, steel balls and femininity

Charlene Smith by Charlene Smith 14 September 200916 April 2013

What makes a 100% woman? Pierre Weiss of the International Association of Athletics Federations has said “it is clear that (Caster Semenya) is a woman, but maybe not 100%”. What is a woman? We know that genetically all women carry a certain level of male chromosomes and all men carry a percentage of female chromosomes. […]

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I’ve had it with the men in this country

Charlene Smith by Charlene Smith 20 August 200816 April 2013

I’ve had it with the men in this country and their Neanderthal views toward women — whether in relationships, from the judiciary or Parliament — the workplace or motherhood. Women constitute more than half the workforce in this country and overwhelmingly carry the burden of child rearing. There are more single mothers than women in […]

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