This time last week, dozens of accomplished women woke with an overwhelming sense of dread. Not good when you also have a killer hangover. Having stepped out on the Logies red carpet the night before, dressed and tressed to the max, these capable women knew that in the media the following day, they would be reduced to a number out of 10.

These points would not be allocated for acumen, empathy or ability – or the fact they’ve endured decades in TV with their sanity and dignity in tact – but rather how they look in a frock. Whether their hair could have been more done, if their clutch-bag added rather than distracted, that their earrings were just right.

You don’t need to be Gloria Steinem to see that this is a whole world of wrong.

– Wendy Squires

via A red carpet special: commodification of women.