Episode 36
The Impact of AI on Women, the WASPI Pension Campaign, and The Guilty Feminist
Join us for Episode 36 of Feminist Money as we discuss:
1. Feature: Should female leaders be judged on their leadership capabilities or their appeal on the marriage market?
2. Research: The advent of AI and the women who are most at risk of having their jobs disrupted by AI at work.
3. International: The fight of WASPI women in the UK who have been denied state pension compensation.
4. Entertainment: That feminist institution of the airwaves, The Guilty Feminist podcast by Deborah Frances-White.
5. Pop Culture: The backlash to the Diary of a CEO, its controversial feminist debate and why it’s a conversation about men talking about women as objects, not people, that’s long overdue.
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(1.37) Why female leaders should be judged as leaders, not by their marital prospects
Aaron Patrick outrages again, Sky News Australia’s unlikely standoff with clothing giant Zara over ‘Lefties Losing It’ brand, The Guardian, 30 January 2026
Sussan Ley’s office WhatsApps reek of desperation, Australian Financial Review, 29 January 2026
‘Poorly judged’: Sexist Sussan Ley column sparks backlash, Media Week, 29 January 2026
Why I wouldn’t marry Sussan Ley, The Nightly, 28 January 2026
Why this journalist claims he wouldn’t marry Sussan Ley, news.com.au, 29 January 2026
(5.42) Research reveals the risks of AI to job sectors dominated by women
AI poses bigger threat in jobs with more women, study finds, CBS News, 29 January 2026
Why Women Workers Are Facing the Biggest AI Risk — and What They Should Do Now, Money Talk News, 30 January 2026
Measuring US workers’ capacity to adapt to AI-driven job displacement, The Brookings Institution, 21 January 2026
(9.28) The UK’s WASPI women’s campaign for retirement funds
Hopes dashed as ‘Waspi women’ again denied state pension compensation, The Guardian, 30 January 2026
What are Waspi women, and what is the row about their state pension?, BBC News, 18 December 2024
Waspi women: 'I want the £45,000 state pension that was stolen from me', BBC News, 22 March 2024
(14.29) Celebrating 10 years of the Guilty Feminist podcast
Listen to The Guilty Feminist, The Guilty Feminist, accessed January 2025
The Guilty Feminist review – flaws-and-all approach to struggle for equality, The Guardian, 17 September 2018
'I'm a feminist...but' - comedian Deborah Frances-White talks orgasms and Harvey Weinstein, Stuff, 21 October 2017
(17.11) The Diary of a CEO backlash
Did The Diary of a CEO Take the Red Pill?, The Cut, 14 January 2026
Steven Bartlett sharing harmful health misinformation in Diary of CEO podcast, BBC News, 13 December 2024
'This podcast framed itself as a debate on feminism. It was the opposite.', Mamamia, 26 June 2025