Starting on January 1, the federal government’s paid parental leave scheme came into effect. Australia was the second-last nation in the developed (and not so-developed) world to introduce this most necessary adjunct to working women’s lives. The United States is now the only country to not have such a scheme.
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In Australia in the 21st century the private sector is taking the lead in promoting equality for women in employment and championing women to be leaders in the business world, a field the federal government once had made its own. Read my article in the Sydney Morning Herald, December 18 2010 It is becoming a depressingly recurring theme: the numbers for women are not good, whichever way you look at them. Read this comprehensive description of the state of play for women’s employment in the US from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania Congratulations to Carol Schwartz for this important initiative. Check out the Women’s Leadership Institute Australia In Melbourne later this week they are having an “IQ Debate” on the topic: Has Feminism Failed? The evidence supposedly is that because we have not yet reached the nirvana of equality this is the fault of feminism. When asked about this by the Sunday Age newspaper, I replied that it is society – not [...] A new group NameItChangeIt has been formed by women in the US to document and combat sexist portrayal of women in public life. Read the article |
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