It's hard to see International Women's Day as anything other than self-congratulatory rubbish, when just this week, in Sydney, one woman is missing and another's body was found stuffed into a suitcase.
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We are all for raising awareness about the inequalities in our society, but trotting out some successful women and lauding them one day of the year doesn't seem to have had much of an impact on institutionalised sexism on the other 364 days of the year - for example, the grubby sexual culture of the NRL that has been in headlines lately.
And some organisations don't even bother getting actual women involved. One branch of the defence force is having a "yoga morning" - although what on earth an ancient Indian practice of stretching has to do with gender equality is lost on me.
Women are murdered regularly in our country. Rape and sexual assault are still normalised.
The 2018 NSW budget gave no additional funding to victims of domestic violence, despite financial hardship being a common reason women (and their children) stay in abusive relationships.
Closer to home, women are disproportionately expected - at home and at work - to do the heavy lifting of domestic chores and emotional labour, for no extra pay.
Support for that labour - like affordable childcare - is inadequate.
Abortion in NSW is still a crime. The last attempt to decriminalise it, in 2017, failed on the floor of the upper house.
Studies have shown that if women take up 30 per cent of the speaking time in a mixed-gender conversation, they are perceived as "dominating". Meanwhile, there's a truckload of public discourse about "feminism going too far" - usually by blokes who've had their apple carts upset by women expecting to be treated like equal human beings.
In this environment, celebrating women and their achievements is important. But we need to bridge the gap between words and actions.
Until then, it's just so much hot air.