merit

Merit was the key word mentioned when Prime Minister Scott Morrison the NSW State Liberal party sthould get more women in Parliament.

A gender-neutral course which focuses on developing ‘merit’ resulted in the first woman member to be voted onto the CBH Board.

At the National Press Club on 6th of March 2019 Dr Anne Summers AO said the Liberals don’t have a woman problem. Women have a problem with the Liberals.

The former foreign minister and Liberal party deputy Julie Bishop opens up for the first time about the leadership spill in August of 2018.

For some time it’s been obvious that the federal Coalition & the Liberal Party in particular, has a significant “woman problem” but it’s not just them.

Despite a growing number of voices making the case for quotas in the Liberal party the Prime Minister Scott Morrison disagrees. He says women need support.

Chris Corrigan and Gerry Harvey are two high profile businessmen willing to make on the record criticisms of the push to appoint more women to boards.

Malcolm Turnbull’s cabinet reshuffle provides unequivocal proof that merit is a furphy and that quotas already exist, but they don’t promote women.

There’s an old piece of early 1930s newsreel footage I saw in a documentary somewhere that features Mahatma Ghandi visiting Britain for the very first time.

The presence of only one woman, albeit a high profile one, in Tony Abbott’s cabinet has prompted renewed calls for the introduction of quotas to ensure greater numbers of senior women in government.

Two days out from the US presidential election, Hillary Clinton has been exonerated by the FBI over the use of her email while Secretary of State.