There was a great appointment win this week – or should we say appointmentS. A new job-sharing model at not-for-profit Wesley Mission Queensland has seen Tala Prowd and Helena Kolenbet appointed Co-General Counsels in a move set to promote work-life balance in the historically inflexible and competitive legal sector. So, why aren’t more workplaces adopting job-sharing in leadership roles?
Also this week, Tarla Lambert and Angela Priestley discuss a move from the teal independents against “misogyny” in Parliament, plus the Domestic, Family and Sexual Violence Commission’s progress report on ending male violence.
Stories discussed this week:
- Cheers to Merle Thornton! The trailblazer who won women the right to drink in QLD bars is getting her own statue
- 116-year old Tomiko Itooka to be named world’s oldest person
- Any hint of limiting reproductive rights won’t help win back seats lost to women
- ‘Condescending, unprofessional, misogynistic’: MPs call out experiences of women in parliament
- Micaela Cronin delivers report on Australia’s progress to end violence against women and children
- How leaders are responding to Micaela Cronin’s update on the government’s plan to end male violence
- Co-General Counsels appointed in job-sharing first at Wesley Mission Queensland
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