This morning a colleague sent me data from the ABS labour force data that showed only one third of new jobs in the economy since the coronavirus crisis began went to women. There were 100,000 new...
By Julie Hare
Taking advisory boards on board
Early last month, a report was quietly slipped onto the website of the Office for Women. There were, it appears, no news reports. It attracted little social media attention: the single Tweet from...
BroadAgenda Wraps the Week: 13 November
I’ve been thinking about Monica Lewinsky. It’s 22 years since her name became one of the most recognisable on the planet. “I have often struggled with my own sense of agency versus victimhood,”...
Are women missing from the Constitution?
The Australian Constitution is notoriously hard to change. Since 1901, when it came into being, there have been 19 referendums, proposing 44 changes, but only eight have been agreed to. Among the...
The women who changed the world
Brazen: (adjective). Marked by shameless or disrespectful boldness; Hussies: (noun, plural). Lewd or brazen women. Brazen hussies: Bold, courageous and crusading women of the 1960s and 1970s who...
The silence of the unseen: Griselda Pollock on women artists
Griselda Pollock says she could describe herself as a “post-colonial, queer, feminist, international, social historian of art and cultural analysis”. That would make sense. She is all of these...
BroadAgenda Wraps the Week – 6 November
There has been an election this week. I won’t dwell on it – heaven knows there has been wall-to-wall coverage and little else. Even a survey of New Zealanders – surely the most chilled people on the...
BroadAgenda Wraps the Week – 30 October
The past few days have proven one thing – each time we might indulge ourselves by thinking that women are making strides in the march towards gender equality, there is still a long, long way to go....
BroadAgenda Weekly Wrap – 18 October
There has been one story dominating the news this week: the very public humiliation of Gladys Berejiklian. Imagine for a moment what it must be like to have...