Has the Opposition Leader dug a big hole for himself with his opposition to the Minerals Resources Rental Tax? Read my article in The Hoopla (www.thehoopla.com.au)
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My Keynote Address to the National Labor Women’s Conference in Brisbane on May 14 in which I celebrate Labor’s success in women’s political leadership but call on the government to take urgent action to improve women’s workforce participation by addressing equality in employment via the EOWA legislation, and to radically reform childcare. Nat Labor [...] Why it’s (still) so hard and what some women in the US are doing to address the dilemma. Practical solutions 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. 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 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 [...] |
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