Is NZ's PM Jacinda Ardern "perhaps the most effective leader on the planet?" The Atlantic thinks so. Another busy week ... stuck in a room, in front of a screen.I’ve had six painters wandering...
By Virginia Haussegger
Liz Broderick on UN calls for COVID policy to protect women & girls
Liz Broderick is Deputy Chair of the UN Working Group on discrimination against women and girls, at the UN Human Rights Council. On April 22 2020 the UN released a statement calling on all nations...
Heading for a COVID workforce woman wreck
Many people I know are sick of hearing about the gender pay gap. Eyes glaze over. Heads nod, unconvinced. Those who tend to universalize their own experience might shrug it off: ‘everyone at my work...
BroadAgenda Wraps the Week
What was supposed to deliver women a little comfort this week in fact made me buckle over with mirth. Then bang my head on my desk, slowly and repeatedly, until it was a gentle, intimate tap. (My...
BroadAgenda Wraps the Week
At least Malaysia was upfront and honest! Whilst many world leaders probably agree with that nation’s state sanctioned misogyny, few are dumb enough to make it a government directive during a time...
BroadAgenda Weekly Wrap
(Photo: NZ PM Jacinda Ardern addresses the nation in a sweatshirt on Facebook, after putting 'the toddler' to bed)This week I got cranky. Which to those who know me, is no real surprise! But what...
BroadAgenda Weekly Wrap
As we learn to grapple with our changing world, wondering how long this strangeness might last and when a new normal might settle in, I was deeply saddened and unsettled this week by the death of...
Seize the CSW Moment: Women’s rights debate comes to Canberra
Libby Lyons, Director Workplace Gender Equality Agency, WGEAOn complacency: I fear there is a sense of complacency around gender equality in our workplaces; with CEOs, with executive teams and with...
In conversation with Natasha Stott Despoja
When Natasha Stott Despoja’s 15-year-old son Conrad shared the news that, according to his commerce teacher, female athletes should not be paid as much as male athletes, she was dumbstruck.“I just...