A woman was sentenced to six months' jail and fined about 13 years' salary at the minimum wage for "shaming" her boss and his family by speaking up about his harassment of her. Her story is a reminder of how little impact the #MeToo movement has had in Indonesia, partly because of the country's infamous Information and Electronic Transactions (ITE) law.

The past 12 months will go down as the Year of the Rebel Girl. Ordinary girls and young women around the world shed their inner good girl and rose strong, bold and loud. They demanded attention, and they got it. They snatched microphones, took up space, dominated headlines and outclassed and out-maneuvered a boys club unaccustomed to dealing with women, much less young ones, who don’t “know their place”.

"As impressive as Malala is, her family's support has made her who she is. Her father's journey from his patriarchal upbringing to being a self-described feminist is particularly remarkable...Most men are decent human beings but I'm not sure that's enough. We have plenty of good blokes but we need heroes and change-makers. Men like Ziauddin Yousafzai."

The number of domestic violence related calls are expected to surge by 20 per cent during the Christmas-New Year's break, due to alcohol, stress and a higher frequency of family gatherings. Research released earlier this year found sporting events also led to a spike in domestic assault according to The Foundation for Alcohol Research and Education and six years of data from the New South Wales Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research.

“We’ve moved on a lot from the postwar period of petticoats and undershirts but mass cultural anxiety about the clothes we dress our children in seems to persist. It's hard to say which one makes parents more fearful – their son being confused for a girl or their daughter being confused for a boy. Society might have its own insecurity and inherent misogyny, femmephobia and queerphobia to answer to for that but it's definitely an insecurity that has been happily seized on by capitalist forces.”

Melbourne City reportedly paid Socceroos star Tim Cahill $3.5 million to play the 2016-17 season. One professional male player was paid more than all 181 professional female players.

“Our findings ... suggest that greater gender diversity is likely to boost male incomes. This makes discrimination against women in labour markets not only economically inefficient but also directly costly to men.”

How, exactly, can men and boys prevent violence against women? We can be conscious of the privileges that accrue to men in a sexist society; challenge misogynist behaviour; let go of gender stereotypes; intervene when you see a friend or stranger acting inappropriately; share the load of housework and child-rearing; champion gender equality at home, at work and in the community.

"The real problem is not whether you can trust women’s stories – given the public cost of outing perpetrators few would make false allegations though doubtless it could happen. It is whether women can trust the investigative and legal processes that gauge the merits of charges of harassment or assault."