“Vacuuming the living room floor — with or without makeup — is not work that takes enough thought or energy to challenge any woman’s full capacity,” Betty Friedan wrote in her 1963 book The Feminine...
Category: Weekly Wrap
BroadAgenda Wraps the Week
Another year. Another brouhaha over the Aussie day lamb ad (are they becoming too political?) and the Australia Day honours list. Honestly, after last year’s national convulsion over the awarding of...
BroadAgenda Wraps the Week
I don’t get this. Research has found watching David Attenborough documentaries to be soothing and good for one’s mental health. Say what? Maybe I’m in the minority, but Attenborough’s message of...
BroadAgenda Wraps the Week: 4 December
It’s 25 years since Hillary Clinton uttered the immortal words “women’s rights are human rights”. It was at the UN’s 1995 Fourth World Conference on Women and optimism was high that we were on the...
BroadAgenda Wraps the Week: 20 November
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...
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,”...
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 Wraps the Week – 23 October
Oh baby. It is somewhat baffling how easy it is for male leaders to say that women should have more babies. Babies are good for the economy, you see. And Australia’s birthrate keeps declining. So as...