There is reason to celebrate the slow but inexorable rise in female representation on corporate boards. However, a new report has found that the apparent positive momentum towards women's leadership...
BroadAgenda Wraps the Week!
There’s a delightfully whacky moment in Madeleine Albright’s biography (actually there are many!) in which she ponders the possibility that once upon a time, somewhere in the cosmos, an apprentice...
Global conservative politics & the ‘woman problem’
The most recent national elections in the United Kingdom and United States yielded record numbers of women legislators. Yet in both countries, those numbers were driven by the election of women on...
Why desperate mothers hide domestic violence
In these times of COVID-19 restrictions, we can only imagine how many women and children have been trapped in homes where they are subjected to domestic violence. Abuse, in its many forms, will have...
Gender News: July 3-9
1. The case for maintaining free childcare - Australia's "Pink Collar Recession". Canberra Times. 9 July.Maintaining free childcare, at least for now, is just as vital to the recovery of the...
COVID doesn’t discriminate; lack of female representation does
The COVID-19 crisis created a new institution not recognised in Australia’s constitution which has overseen a rare and sustained period of cooperation and bi-partisanship between the federal, state...
Why are TV sitcom dads so hapless?
From Homer Simpson to Phil Dunphy, sitcom dads have long been known for being bumbling and inept.It wasn’t always this way. Back in the 1950s and 1960s, sitcom dads tended to be serious, calm and...
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BroadAgenda Wraps the Week: radical impatience for change; the Dyson ‘enablers’; and the baby ‘no brainer’
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...