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25.01.2022 A society advancing towards equality for women is good for everyone’s health and well-being; in fact, feminism could save your life. http://www.broadagenda.com.au//why-feminism-is-good-for-y/
25.01.2022 Put sexism and ageism together and what do you get? Find out in our weekly wrap of the best stories from around the world. It includes surfing, AOC putting on her lipstick and the gender pay gap in Donald Trump's White House. http://www.broadagenda.com.au/home/new-blog-post-15/
23.01.2022 Today on BroadAgenda: as the global spotlight shines on feminist activity and women's issues during the busy month of March, during International Women's Day #IWD and the UN Commission on the Status of Women #CSW65 consider all the women's voices that are not being heard - where the digital divide is widening. Ck this thoughtful piece by Jane Alver from the University of Unic Canberra Institute for Governance & Policy Analysis.
22.01.2022 Structural sexism and lack of women MPs in the Liberal and National parties’ ranks is resulting in a raft of "men first" policies to the COVID-19 response. It is high time the six female cabinet members stood strong and pushed for quotas in winnable seats. Chris Wallace, author of How to Win an Election, in today's BroadAgenda. http://www.broadagenda.com.au/home/new-blog-post-17/
22.01.2022 Every national news director in Australia is male. Of the 32 people working in the most senior news management roles, nine (28%) are women and 23 are men (72%). The number of women working in news leadership roles vary (Seven has 0% women, Nine has 14%, Ten has 43%, ABC has 43% and SBS has 50%).... And everyone of them - with a few exceptions - is white and Anglo-Celtic. No wonder there is a lack of diversity in how news is reported in this country. http://www.broadagenda.com.au/home/new-blog-post-14/
22.01.2022 Sixty years ago, Ruth Bader Ginsburg applied to be a Supreme Court clerk. She’d studied at two of our finest law schools and had ringing recommendations. But be...cause she was a woman, she was rejected. Ten years later, she sent her first brief to the Supreme Courtwhich led it to strike down a state law based on gender discrimination for the first time. And then, for nearly three decades, as the second woman ever to sit on the highest court in the land, she was a warrior for gender equalitysomeone who believed that equal justice under law only had meaning if it applied to every single American. Over a long career on both sides of the benchas a relentless litigator and an incisive juristJustice Ginsburg helped us see that discrimination on the basis of sex isn’t about an abstract ideal of equality; that it doesn’t only harm women; that it has real consequences for all of us. It’s about who we areand who we can be. Justice Ginsburg inspired the generations who followed her, from the tiniest trick-or-treaters to law students burning the midnight oil to the most powerful leaders in the land. Michelle and I admired her greatly, we’re profoundly thankful for the legacy she left this country, and we offer our gratitude and our condolences to her children and grandchildren tonight. Ruth Bader Ginsburg fought to the end, through her cancer, with unwavering faith in our democracy and its ideals. That’s how we remember her. But she also left instructions for how she wanted her legacy to be honored. Four and a half years ago, when Republicans refused to hold a hearing or an up-or-down vote on Merrick Garland, they invented the principle that the Senate shouldn’t fill an open seat on the Supreme Court before a new president was sworn in. A basic principle of the lawand of everyday fairnessis that we apply rules with consistency, and not based on what’s convenient or advantageous in the moment. The rule of law, the legitimacy of our courts, the fundamental workings of our democracy all depend on that basic principle. As votes are already being cast in this election, Republican Senators are now called to apply that standard. The questions before the Court now and in the coming yearswith decisions that will determine whether or not our economy is fair, our society is just, women are treated equally, our planet survives, and our democracy enduresare too consequential to future generations for courts to be filled through anything less than an unimpeachable process.
21.01.2022 "Sexual harassment is at epidemic levels in Australia, with 85% of women reporting they have been sexually harassed at some time in their lives, and 57% of men, according to a 2018 Australian Human Rights Commission report. Along with reforming NDAs as suggested by the Sex Discrimination Commissioner, there are also some simple steps that can be taken to obtain greater transparency on how they are used and the environment and culture which enables their use - especially involving sexual harassment matters."
20.01.2022 Women make up a significant majority of law graduates yet they are largely invisible in the upper echelons of the legal profession. So, do we need a feminist law school? Let me count the ways ... http://www.broadagenda.com.au//why-we-need-a-feminist-law/
19.01.2022 Tonight!!! Our very own Prof Kim Rubenstein on Q&A - tune in!
18.01.2022 Today on BroadAgenda: has the digital economy ... and the so called 'digital revolution' been good for women? Well, in short - yes and absolutely no. Where it has left women behind - it is doing so at a cracking pace, with alarming long term, irreversible consequences. If regulatory action, on a global scale, isn't taken within this decade, these authors argue a devastating gender inequality will be permanently entrenched.
17.01.2022 We should go away for a dirty weekend sometime. I love your legs in that skirt. I’m going to be thinking about them wrapped around me all day long. Gosh, Rebecca, you and I fight so much ... I think we must have been married in our last life.... These were just some of the sexualised comments a male sales representative directed toward his female colleague when they both worked for the same company.
17.01.2022 Wondering why women are so very, very, very angry right now??? Well, I've been mulling over this for a long time. Here's a sniff of the scent of fury... My op ed in today's Canberra Times.
17.01.2022 "Conflict related sexual violence is all to often left unpunished. In Syria and Iraq, it was used as genocide against the Yazidis. So many Yazidi women have stood up and cried out, calling for justice for what happened to them and their community. Nadia Murad even won a Nobel Peace Prize for her efforts, but we have yet to see a single prosecution of a Da’esh fighter for sexual violence as genocide or war crimes." https://bit.ly/33bjN6W
15.01.2022 It's been 22 years since Monica Lewinsky became a household name. But here we are, all these years later, and the same old story about politicians and staffers, the mirage of consenting adults, the truth about power and hypocrisy keeps repeating itself. Read this and much more in BroadAgenda's weekly wrap of everything newsworthy and interesting (in our own humble opinion!). https://bit.ly/35pyrcf https://www.broadagenda.com.au//broadagenda-wraps-the-wee/
14.01.2022 "If we ever needed to high five the ordinary acts associated with just keeping on going, and embrace being fabulously ordinary, this is that year. Give it a try." Amy Haddad on why she no longer wants to celebrate the fabulous and inspiration but wants to lean-in to the ordinary. Great read
12.01.2022 Up for a long chat?! Here's one I thoroughly enjoyed with Shane Dobbin 2XX FM 98.3 ... on air Tuesday evening 6.30pm.
10.01.2022 There was one powerful and devastating mechanism Harvey Weinstein used to shut up and shut down the women he sexually abused, raped and tormented - a rather simple and straight forward legal device - the Non Disclosure Agreement, or NDA. The Hollywood tyrant may be the the biggest public example of NDA's in action, but he's certainly not the first to use NDA's... and he won't be the last. Many Australian workplaces use them too. These companies or organisations get employees... to sign NDA's, which can include banning the employee from speaking publicly about sexual assault claims - even when those claims are found to be true. Do NDA's protect women's privacy? Yes, sometimes. But more often than not, the major beneficiary is the employer, the company, organisation, or senior executive etc - who is protected from any media and public exposure. Some can quietly walk away, with no-one learning what took place. Or, if you happen to be as brazen as AMP Capital's CEO, Boe Pahari, you don't just get to keep your job, you get promoted! While the woman who was found to have been sexually harassed by you loses her job... and her career tanks! Surely it's time Australia reviews NDA's and disallows the use of them in sexual harassment cases. If we don't change the law around NDA's, it would seem to me we are legally sanctioning the protection of sexual harassers and abuse perpetrators. Why would we allow that? Read this excellent piece by Tony Nagy, on today's BroadAgenda.
09.01.2022 Corporate Australia has failed to heed the very clear message that gender diversity at the top echelons is good for the bottom line. Only one female CEO was appointed to an ASX200 company in the past year, bringing the total to 10. http://www.broadagenda.com.au/home/the-lonely-5/
09.01.2022 "We can certainly do away with the stupidity, but please, let’s not throw the proverbial baby out with the (pink confetti) rocket ship."
05.01.2022 Afghanistan is one of the worst places on earth to be a woman. Self-immolation is rife as women look to desperate measures to escape their desperate circumstances. But things are beginning to look up. Great piece by Sanaz Fotouhi ahead of the launch of her new book Love Marriage in Kabul: A Memoir. https://bit.ly/3lK6Loo
03.01.2022 We hear a lot about toxic masculinity, but is there a flipside - toxic femininity? http://www.broadagenda.com.au/home/new-blog-post-9/
03.01.2022 On International Day of Women and Girls in Science, here are a few little prompts about women whose lives and work we should all know about - just as much as we know Einstein, Galileo, Darwin, Newton etc etc etc...
02.01.2022 Imagine a new smartphone comes onto the market. For men, it costs $100; for women, it’s $114, reflecting the 14% gender pay gap that existed pre-COVID-19. For men, the phone’s reception is flawless, but women can only use it if they stand on one leg, juggling a baby and a laptop computer while looking calm and perfectly groomed. Ridiculous? Well, this is essentially the system we have set up for second-income earners in Australia, most of whom are women.
01.01.2022 48% of all federal government boards are now held by women. Read here how to think outside the square and give your career into governance the boost it might need. https://www.broadagenda.com.au//take-this-advice-advisory/
