When they cater for women, even the menu is misogynist

It was midnight at Canberra’s Kingston Hotel. Our table was littered with half-masticated packets of beef jerky and three empty bottles of middling champagne. The Labor backbencher at the neighbouring table and his pilgrimage of selfie-hunting baby staffers had finally tired of one another.

Now, the ladies at my table are generally not ones to see discrimination in every chance and happenstance. But we’d all come straight from long days at busy jobs and, after a couple of glasses of Prosecco with nothing to line the stomach, our table was hungry and already pretty hilarious when the lean cuisine arrived. Nobody, we fumed, would’ve dared to cater a male-dominated banking dinner on ballerina rations; this was clearly chicken feed for a room full of chicks. Menu misogyny.

Meanwhile, fun is put on hold because fun things are often fattening. Just like Ginger Rogers, who executed complex cinematic dance routines with Fred Astaire – but backwards and in heels – career women are doing everything men do plus extra hours, on a diet.

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