MIA JOYCE cas bers an “inde-the radar fini She beds views on specie womers righ without overt eer fnce to the Broader feminist movement — and she bold them uit K watt aes so foc feminists Bat there at lest for Joye « good reso. “When you thin about feminists here this idea that Theyre all very angry women with hay Jeg So people dont want o hear sbou that esate thats boring” she ay ‘What foyce is concerned wth gender quality am personal er — ach 2 how Saving by might fet hx carer — and Shelamens the death of women around the board ble “the enn back nthe yo swe sul hve everything and i wee pt {orale hat, ns we eat have eveything tre do buve o make decisions” syste 27- Yearsld if we want to have babs then aps wed hart are care, Weve foto rcalse that we cart haestal eid maternity He care ferninits fough for ave in fect been doing women 2 disservice, € women in the child-bearing years are nove considered “risky” candidates by prospective employers “Is that puting up a barrier for us in the workplace?” ‘According to Joyce, the main difer- ‘ence between post-illenial feminists and thore from the previous era boils down to individual versus collective, "The old school feminists, they want the sort of collective action, whereas wee not realy forming into groups, Weve heen brought up to make Individual decisions and the idea of going to a big omen’ consciousnes-rlsing meeting as they did in the 70s just fills me with absolute horror” Nonetheless Joyce acknowledges. the ‘eb women today owe to the highly organ- ised work of those early women’s libbers."T ‘an see what the older feminists did and how its actualy empowered me now she sys Despite the lingering gratitude for advances made and rights granted, thee’s ‘the strong senie that fewer and fewer young ‘women are calling themselves ferinists today. Fe bying for gender equality ‘hag all but fllen off the social rade. Even ‘ur universities, reitionally bot beds ofthe Jeminist movement, are feeling the pinch, Last year, only around 20 women from a 22,000-sirong, female student population at the University of Auckland felt sui ciently inspted to participate in the Campas Feminist Collective Perhape the feminist moverent has become @ victim ofits own success. With ‘voting rights and legal rights wel established and unprecedented social feedoms, on the sucface i seems that women have never had St so good. Yt the perceived complacency is ot universal. There ar sil dsceet pockets of women intent on furthering feminist goal Bat feminists no longer @ one-sie-fits-all label rather, new breeds have emerged. A fiesh crop of women, Intent on pursuing their own particular brand of equality, who refuse to be homogenously classified under € single word, have taken over where thei predecessors lft off As the University of Auckland Students Associations women’ rights fice for 2009, Caroline Ferguston was the offical voice of feminism on campus. "The forms of appre | think ‘Wi | Tealise | can't f theyre very hidden scaept them and try 8 gee as they elvay ld. “Obviously, the w 1 popular word. Usa