Contrary to what I wrote in the Janine Haines Lecture on August 23 (see Speeches on my website), the Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Agency IS still conducting a census of women in management and women on boards.
The Agency conducted these censuses in 2002 and 2003 but had not done once since.
But just last week (31 August) EOWA released its latest census.
The results are not encouraging – see next posting for a report on the outcomes – but it is very good to know that the position of women in leadership roles in the corporate world is again being monitored by the federal government.
I don�t need to be Don Watson to see through Summers’ degenerate corporate femocrat euphemisms, worthy of a glossy PR handout reeking of non-Greenpeace printing dyes: “senior positions”…”leadership roles”.
“Senior” smacks of weighty responsibility in the age of planet-plundering Enron-ism; “leadership” implies some special moral quality other than the capacity to lie, crawl and sell subordinates’work as your own. Readers may like to refer, rather, to the realism of Lucy Kellaway in the Financial Times (UK). But then Summers and her consoeurs have been trying to rearrange the deckchairs for Ladies Only on the Australian Titanic for 20 years and more.
It is noteworthy that there seems not to be a single piece of info/comment on this site about what Summers does at Greenpeace as Board Chair. Now why is that, given that she regularly contributes to Australia’s massive overshoot on Kyoto CO2 levels by flying off to Amsterdam or Beijing on Greenpeace business?
Admittedly, given that Greenpeace is another NGO which believes that corporations can be made to behave benignly, Summers’ flights are at least consistent with her neoliberal “jobs for the girls” language.
Why do you post as anonymous?
Stand up for yourself if you believe in what you say.