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Heckler offers No Chicks a “blatant free plug”

Posted: February 13th, 2011 | Filed under: Media Centre

The following item appeared on page 24 of The Sunday Age, 13 February 2011:

Chicks brook no excuse

Blatant free plug: Blokes who organises gabfests and fail to invite female speakers because women are so hard to find now have do defence. A website just launched – called No Chicks NO Excuses (nochicksnoexcuses.com) – has a lit of about 45 “bright, interesting and funny women” who are available to speak. The site is the brainchild of Leslie Cannold (author, ethicist and activist), Jane Caro (author, lecturer and advertising writer) and Catherine Deveny (TV comedy writer, comedian, former Age columnist and ABC regular). Cannold says the site is a tad Melbourne and Sydney-centric at the moment but will have increased national reach as ore speakers sign on