News & Views Progress is too slow & the road is still too long but women have made gains As 2019 kicks off, Trish has resolved to take a glass-half-full look at things and celebrate some of the progress women have made.
News & Views End public funding of institutions that discriminate for real protection against discrimination Don’t be fooled. Those proposed changes to anti-discrimination laws to better protect students and teachers in religious schools and institutions won’t do much.
News & Views Why are the women’s bathrooms always out of the way? Jennie Hill frequents dozens of public facilities every year for work and she has noticed that the women’s bathrooms are always out of the way.
News & Views If education and hard work were enough leadership would be culturally diverse. How can we fix the imbalance? Cathy Ngo always believed hard work and a great education would get her ahead. How can we make leadership better reflect culturall diverse Australia?
News & Views “Of course it has to be led by a man”: Qatar Airways CEO Akbar Al Baker says of his job. The CEO of Qatar Airlines, Akbar Al Baker, has caused a furore with his comments at a press conference in Sydney where he said his job could only be done by a man “because it’s very challenging”.
News & Views The hypocrisy is blatant & barefaced: Why Jane Caro can’t stand Mother’s Day It is Mother’s Day where the full force of society’s hypocrisy and sentimentality lets rip, Jane Caro writes. Women need more love and less sentimentality.
Soapbox ‘I appreciated feminism but I didn’t think I needed it. Until now.’ “I have spent a large portion of my life thinking that feminism was something that happened in the 1960s and 1970s. I appreciated feminism, but I wasn’t in need of feminism. I have peddled this rather condescending ambivalence most of my adult life.”
Ed's Blog More than a hashtag: Why Nike’s exodus of badly-behaved executives is so significant A group of women at Nike were fed up with the toxic culture and their revolt prompted Nike’s exodus of badly-behaved executives
Employers The rise of #metoo: What employers need to know about sexual harassment in the workplace According to the ABS 2.4 million Australians said they experienced harassment in the last year alone. This is what employers need to know about sexual harassment.
News & Views The Glass Ceiling Index: Where are the best & worst places to be a working woman? The Economist’s 2018 glass ceiling index is a yearly assessment of where women have the best and worst chances of equal treatment at work. Australia ranks 16.
News & Views Men taking salary cuts doesn’t solve the pay gap Johan Lundgren, the EasyJet CEO, has voluntarily taken a £34,000 pay cut to match the salary his female predecessor Carolyn McCall earned.
Ed's Blog In 2014 Time magazine proposed banning the word ‘feminism’. Now look. Feminism has been designated the 2017 word of the year by Merriam Webster dictionary. It’s extraordinary to consider Time proposed banning it in 2014.