I have had a huge response to my article on Germaine Greer, published a week ago in the Sunday Age. You can read comments posted on this website in the right-hand column of the home page, and also see my Facebook page for many, many more. Now the article has been picked up by the Global Sisterhood Network. It’s gone viral!
I have written about Germaine Greer in the Sunday Age, looking at the way in which The Female Eunuch – published forty years ago this year – helped so many women start groping their way towards freedom, and asking why it is that Greer is still subject to such vicious attacks even today. Read article
A review in the Sun-Herald today describes my essay ‘On Luck’ as “brilliant”. The essay is now included in an ‘On-nibus’ collection of eight of the “little books on big themes” essays published by Melbourne University Press in 2008.
Another standout is Anne Summers’s excellent essay on the notion of the “lucky country” – a phrase that was intended as an insult but which we have somehow transformed into a national epithet.
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An article in today’s Sun-Herald quotes an unnamed “government source” as saying that although the numbers of women on ASX200 Boards was “woeful”, the government would not legislate quotas. The same article also states that the federal government has already rejected the option of providing tax incentives for companies to hire more women. Instead, if the article is well-informed, the government appears to be heading in the direction of offering men more flexibility in their hours of work. This is fine, but it does not address the burning question of the stark inequality of women in employment: their earnings, and their ability to be appointed to top jobs in management and on boards.
It is disappointing, to say the least, that the government is not willing to engage in an open dialogue about these issues, preferring instead apparently to engage in “reform via media leaks”. Read the article
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