Over-writing my casual sexism - for my daughter

I have tried really hard over the years - even before the birth of my daughter - to confront the prejudices I grew up with as a child. White. Middle-class. Man. Yep the world owes us big time (sarcasm). I hate that so many of us literally think rich is better than poor. Men are better than women. And white is best of all.

Such. Utter. Crap.

My honours thesis in the mid 90s testifies to my ongoing work to unlearn it all.

But nothing sharpens the mind, and the drive for change, like having a child. A daughter.

I have been sharing my love of music with Ms 8 since, well, forever for her. And the other day, we were having a great time listening to some of my favourite songs, when she told me to put Blondie on. When I asked why she said told me there hadn't been enough women in the bands we'd been listening to.

Blondie it is - and yes I have pretty much the entire collection and we listen to it all the time.

But it got me thinking about balancing out my collection a bit. So more women for my collection - and there are so many cool women in the music world.

So here's a few I'm adding to my list:

• Blondie
• Debbie Harry
• Divinyls
• B52s
• Clouds
• Pretenders
• Sinead O'Connor
• Cranberries
• Joan Jett
• En Vogue

So I understand that while seriously cool, my taste in music could be a little more up to date. So please, please tell me who are today's really awesome women in rock.

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