Women marry their glass ceilings. It’s the thesis behind a new book by author Caitlin Moran and hits close to the bone. “If she wants children and a job, a woman’s life is only as good as the man or...
By Julie Hare
BroadAgenda Wraps the Week
The Catch-22 of female ageing was captured beautifully in Julia Baird’s book Phosphorescence. “It’s as though ageing is a little … embarrassing, unkempt and sloppy,” Baird writes, noting that we...
Transparency is the most disruptive strategy
“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...
BroadAgenda Weekly Wrap
“Women can't have it all. They can have plenty of choices, but at the end of the day, they choose something which means they can't have something else.” So said Julie Bishop back in 2013. Her words...
Women vs gender: What’s in a word?
When Julie-Ann Guivarra replaced Sharman Stone in a key diplomatic role earlier this year she did so in everything but title. The name of the role changed from Australian Ambassador for Women and...
BroadAgenda Wraps the Week
It’s been another week of men behaving badly – but with a difference. This week we have seen men – powerful men at the top of powerful institutions – suffer consequences.Over at AMP heads continue...
The pink-collar recession: why flexible work matters
In 1606, while self-isolating during London’s Bubonic Plague, William Shakespeare wrote Antony and Cleopatra. He also wrote King Lear and Macbeth in the couple of years prior while London was...
BroadAgenda Wraps the Week
Six months ago, on February 19, just as we were getting more than an inkling that a shape-shifting virus was in our midst, Hannah Clarke and her three children were murdered by their estranged...
An end to domestic violence? Start with gender equality
Every day of every year, police across Australia respond to 657 domestic and family violence notifications. That is one every two minutes. On the 34th week of 2020, 34 women and 38 children have...