Now here’s an interesting fact I just tripped over. We know that only 7 percent of Fortune 500 companies in the US have women CEO’s, but did you know that only 7 percent of the world’s population is...
By Virginia Haussegger
BroadAgenda Wraps the Week: Women scream; Men bag $$; the PM ‘fixes the highway’!
It’s hard to know where to start when trying to wrap this week. I’m not sure what is causing me most heartache. Politics, thuggery or insult.Early in the week it was the putrid stench of male ego,...
BroadAgenda Wraps the Week: Childcare catastrophe and JA’s ‘little dance’
Just what sort of tin ear does this government have? Monday’s announcement by Education Minister Dan Tehan that childcare fees were to be reintroduced sooner than expected and childcare workers are...
A BroadAgenda Week: COVID cracks; another #DV inquiry & a homeless led construction recovery!
After decades working as a television broadcaster you would think I’d know how to do my own hair and make-up. Quickly. But turns out I don’t. Or, more to the point, I’ve lost the knack.I blame a...
BroadAgenda’s Week: A Minister, a missive … and super Mums
In her recent Op Ed published in The Strategist, ‘The pandemic’s gender imperative’, Senator Marise Payne calls on governments around the world to be more responsive to the specific and urgent needs...
Dear COVID Committee Senators… a late night missive
The effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on Australian women has been profound, yet largely misunderstood and under reported. Not only has the crisis highlighted the nation's economic dependency on...
BroadAgenda Wraps the Week
I must have a face that looks permanently confused, because I find men often feel the need to explain things to me. But unlike Rebecca Solnit, author of ‘Men Explain Things to Me’, verbose male...
Women in Leadership – we’ve got it licked! (yeah right!)
Not long ago this wasn’t possible. Premiers of the nation’s three most populous states dominate the screen– two of them women. Confident and commanding, on prime-time TV, telling this week’s Q&A...
BroadAgenda Wraps the Week
“If the pandemic has revealed anything it is the dependency of the economy on women’s work. After decades of unequal pay and marginalisation from financial decision making, Australian women have...